plodding

英 [ˈplɒdɪŋ]

美 [ˈplɑːdɪŋ]

adj.  老牛拖破车似的; 做事慎重而呆板的
v.  艰难地行走; 吃力地行进
plod的现在分词

现在分词：plodding　

BNC.34617 / COCA.29300

牛津词典

adj.

• 老牛拖破车似的；做事慎重而呆板的
  working or doing sth slowly and steadily, especially in a way that other people think is boring

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉重缓慢地走；步履艰难地走
  If someoneplods, they walk slowly and heavily.
  1. Crowds of French and British families plodded around in yellow plastic macs.
     成群结队的法国和英国家庭穿着黄色塑料雨衣步履沉重地走来走去。
• VERB 缓慢地进行
  If you say that someoneplods onorplods alongwith a job, you mean that the job is taking a long time.
  1. He is plodding on with negotiations...
     他正缓慢艰难地进行着谈判。
  2. Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
     飞机制造业仍旧举步维艰，发展速度之缓很让人头疼。

英英释义

noun

• the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
  1. I could recognize his plod anywhere
  Synonym:plod
• hard monotonous routine work
  Synonym:drudgerygrinddonkeywork

adj

• (of movement) slow and laborious
  1. leaden steps
  Synonym:leaden

双语例句

• We all sit at our desks, plodding away in silence.
  我们都坐在桌子旁不做声地埋头苦干。
• A quiet plodding horse.
  安静进行单调沉重劳动的马。
• A plodding general miner, it may find it hard to haggle with the canny and highly knowledgeable dealers who are the prime customers for rough diamonds.
  对一个辛苦劳作的普通矿业公司来说，它会发现要与那些精明的和知识渊博的经销商讨价还价是很艰难的事，因为这些人都是毛坯钻石的黄金客户。
• Plodding regulators can do little to change that fact.
  行动迟缓的监管机构对此无能为力。
• With luck China will combine its precocity in economic development with a plodding conservatism in economic diplomacy.
  中国很幸运将其经济发展的早熟与经济外交的保守主义想结合。
• After two decades of plodding developments in personal computing, a host of new platforms has cropped up, many within the past six months of2009.
  在经历个人计算领域20多年的缓慢发展之后，大量新平台浮出了水面，其中许多都是在2009年的后半年诞生的。
• I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie's rather plodding pace.
  电影的节奏相当缓慢，确实让我有点不耐烦。
• Rather than plodding through a morning paper and an evening broadcast, they increasingly seek the kind of information they want, when they want.
  摒弃了单调无趣的早报或晚间新闻，通过更便捷更廉价的方式，人们开始越来越多的有针对性的获取新闻内容。
• The old man was plodding wearily along the Bank of the river.
  老人拖着疲惫的步子沿着河岸走。
• The patient Bull won't have a problem plodding through educational books or drawn-out suspense thrillers.
  耐心的金牛座读枯燥的教育性书籍或漫长的悬念小说一点问题都没有。