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

• 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。
• If you adopt the plodding, methodical approach I describe, you will probably have your program operating the first time.
  假如你采纳我建议的放慢脚步、有条不紊的方式，你将很可能第一次尝试就能获得自己的程序操作。
• 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。
• 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。
• That follows a much more plodding and analytic approach.
  它需要的是更平实和分析性的描述。
• While China has moved faster than some expected the pace is still plodding.
  尽管中国的行动已经快于一些人的预期，但步伐仍然缓慢。
• 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。
• A deliberate, perhaps plodding, decision-maker, he hated to be rushed into making changes and preferred to stick to his plan regardless of circumstances.
  作为一个深思熟虑，也许还有点步调拖沓的决策者，他不愿意迅速做出改变，而是无论环境如何变化，宁可坚持自己的计划。
• Plodding regulators can do little to change that fact.
  行动迟缓的监管机构对此无能为力。
• Will the team be able to find a balance between an all-out running attack and Elton Brand's plodding offense?
  球队是否已经找到了在快速进攻和埃尔顿-布兰德的慢打的平衡？