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单词 make heavy weather of
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make heavy weather of

informal Have unnecessary difficulty in dealing with (a task or problem): why do we make such heavy weather of learning languages?...
  • But Councillor Steve Galloway said: ‘I think we are making heavy weather of it all.’
  • Almost week by week the evidence grows of a strengthening and sustainable recovery in the US while the continental economies continue to make heavy weather of a global pick-up.
  • For a serious woman who can make heavy weather of life, she has a very sunny side.
From the nautical phrase make good or bad weather of it, referring to a ship in a storm
See parent entry: weather
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