pesado-2
onerous ; ponderous ; tedious ; tiresome ; weighty ; bore ; drab ; stodgy ; wearisome ; weary ; wearying ; importunate ; leaden ; nuisance ; pushy ; pest ; lumbering.
Sub-arrangement under an entry term can alleviate the onerous task of scanning long lists of entries under the same keyword.
Some SLIS are seriously affected by ponderous administrative procedures imposed upon them.
In other places too many references could make for a very tedious search.
Some of their drawbacks make regular use rather tiresome.
AACR1 is a weighty code, not because it contains extensive enumeration, but rather because of its comprehensive coverage.
It is when speakers have no feeling for pause that their speech seems to burble on without any arresting quality; the club bore is a burbler: he has not learnt the eloquence of silence.
Have reading foisted on you as a duty, a task to be put up with, from which you expect no delight, and it can appear a drab business gladly to be given up.
One could easily prefer the convenience of the stodgy single-volume work.
The earliest binding machines replaced the wearisome hand-beating of the sheets in order to fold them.
Humanity is returning to the downsized, reengineered, total quality management weary business world.
A new wave of books dealing frankly with such concerns as sex, alcoholism and broken homes was seen as a breakthrough, but plots and styles have begun to show a wearying sameness.
She concludes that this problem probes the importunate boundaries separating man from beast and the natural from the monstrous.
Many of the revisions they suggest exacerbate the leaden, plethoric style that comes naturally to lawyers .
However, delays in the generation of centralised records can be a considerable nuisance.
Parents can help the development of a child prodigy in an infinite number of ways, ranging from the attentive but not too pushy to the downright obsessive.
Library users fall into 4 groups: (1) patrons, who are considerate, grateful and undemanding; (2) 'pests' - the inconsiderate; (3) 'pirates' who steal, deface and mutilate library property and materials; (4) 'vampires' whose enquiries make excessive demands upon the librarian's time.
He is presented in the movie as a somewhat comical character, with a lumbering but pleasant clumsiness as he walks through doors and into furniture.
broma pesada
practical joke
The author shows that manufactured practical jokes such as the whoopie cushion, squirting flower and fake animal feces are being used, carnivalistically and humorously, as a conscious and unconscious comment on larger social situations.
de un modo aburrido y pesado
tediously
ponderously
boringly
Bibliographers, like other scholars, have to be able to think logically, to judge critically, and to persevere in tediously repetitive tasks.
However, his use of a remorselessly chronological approach yields a narrative that is often bitty, sometimes ponderously plodding.
Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful.
hacer (todo) el trabajo pesado
do (all) + the donkey work
If you tell him to take it easy, he'll sit back and let you do all the donkey work.
lento y pesado
plodding
However, his use of a remorselessly chronological approach yields a narrative that is often bitty, sometimes ponderously plodding.
pesados, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
nuisance, the
Essentially, problem patrons can be considered in three groups: (1) the dangerous or apparently dangerous; (2) the patron who disrupts readers; and (3) the nuisance whose focus is the librarian.
ser un pesado
be a pest
be a pain in the neck
be a pain in the ass
be a pain in the arse
be a pain in the backside
be a pain in the proverbials
be a (real) nuisance
be a pain in the butt
My advice to young scientists: be a pest - ask questions and don't be satisfied with all answers; have the heart of a lion; have the patience of Job; be multi-culturally competent; and the only correct route to success is your own.
Within a few days it was apparent that my long hair was going to be a pain in the neck while swimming laps.
The last thing that anyone working in an organization wants to be is a pain in the ass to work with.
I alwasy knew she was a pain in the arse, without knowing her you can just tell, by the way she behaves, that she is big-headed and thinks she's god's gift to the human race.
Our cat is a pain in the backside at times but we love him to bits.
In one school, the kids were wonderful but the parents were a complete pain in the proverbials and seemed to live permanently on the school.
The passenger sitting next to me was a real nuisance.
The first thing to keep in mind is that brake bleeding can be an unbearable pain in the butt.
trabajo pesado
donkey work
It can take a long time and it seems like the kind of 'donkey work' that ought to be relegated to a data entry person.
viejo pesado
old fart
Old farts are everywhere, and they bring with them the ghosts of the past - ghosts that are long dead and need to remain so.
