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tail-heavy

/teyl-hev-ee/US // ˈteɪlˌhɛv i //

尾大不掉,尾大不掉的,尾巴重,尾重

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting or pertaining to a craft or vehicle that is too heavy in the rear, from overloading or poor design.

Examples

  • The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

  • “There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

  • The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

  • “JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

  • Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • The dog stood with hanging head and tail, as if ashamed he had let so many of his enemies get away unharmed.

  • The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.

  • Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.