1[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]WALK to move in a slowawkward way 缓慢而笨拙地移动
lumber up/towards/into/along etc
They lumbered along slowly.
他们笨拙地慢慢前行。
A blue bus lumbered past.
一辆蓝色公共汽车慢吞吞地驶过。
2[transitiveT] informalJOB/TASK to give someone a job or responsibility that they do not want 迫使担负〔不愿意承担的工作或责任〕
get/be lumbered with something
A career was less easy once I was lumbered with a husband and children.
一旦我有了丈夫和孩子的拖累,想在事业上有所发展就不那么容易了。
3.[intransitiveI]American EnglishAmETAF to cut down trees in a large area and prepare them to be sold 伐木
Examples from the Corpus
lumber• We chat about the lumbering, and the latest antics at MountBlue, in my neck of the woods.• With that, he stood and slowly lumbered his way down the patch.• The RedFlag taxi lumbered off into the night.• She lumbered out of bed, reached for the too recently removed dressing-gown and took herself off to her bathroom.• Two Hearthwares, huge in their armour, lumbered over to join in the fray.• Djindjic told a rally at RepublicSquare that Milosevic was trying to lumber the police with responsibility for failed government policy.• Instead of proceeding at his normalbrisktrot, he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine's cabin.• I was lumbered with one hairstyle and that's the way it would stay.
get/be lumbered with something• Yours truly got lumbered withdelivering all the Christmas boxes and of course, each time I got asked in.• And they were lumbered with me.• I was lumbered with one hairstyle and that's the way it would stay.
2.British EnglishBrE informalTHING large objects that are no longer useful or wanted 废旧笨重的物品
Examples from the Corpus
lumber• I love these woods, even as we harvestlumber from them.• Fast-growing forest trees could do more than increase the world's supply of lumber and pulp.• Only a pile of broken concrete, loosebricks and splinteredlumber remained.
(1600-1700)lumber“disused furniture and other objects”((16-21 centuries)), perhaps from lombard“shop where money is lent in exchange for objects”((16-19 centuries))