plodding

adj.

1. 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

1. VERB 沉重缓慢地走；步履艰难地走
   If someone plods, 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。
2. VERB 缓慢地进行
   If you say that someone plods on or plods along with 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。

1. 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。
2. He is plodding on with negotiations
   他正缓慢艰难地进行着谈判。
3. He's plodding away day and night.
   他一天到晚在勤苦工作。
4. 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。
5. That follows a much more plodding and analytic approach.
   它需要的是更平实和分析性的描述。
6. If your code is plodding, however, you may want to take the matter into your own hands.
   但是，如果代码运行缓慢，您可能更希望自己处理。
7. 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。
8. Returns in Hong Kong have been plodding compared with those in Shanghai and Shenzhen, but are still better than anywhere else.
   与沪市和深市的A股相比，H股收益一直不高，但仍好于其他任何市场。
9. 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。
10. The paper briefly introduces the process and mechanism of soap vacuum plodding through Analyze of quality problems soap vacuum plodding, such as soap body rough, soft white point etc.
    通过对真空出条中质量问题的分析，简述了真空出条概况和机理，对真空出条中常见的质量问题如皂体粗糙，软白点等进行了分析，并提出了解决这些问题的方法。
11. Two other passengers besides the one were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail.
    除了这人以外，别的两个乘客也跟在邮车旁边，艰苦地爬上山坡。
12. 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。
13. The US economy, while hardly in top shape, is at least plodding ahead, while the eurozone is wobbling on the edge of a cliff.
    美国经济虽然不在最佳状态，但至少在缓慢前行，而欧元区经济则处于岌岌可危的悬崖边上。
14. Heck, if those boring Spurs win another title at least it will be because of a guard who can penetrate, and not that plodding Tim Duncan.
    如果那些乏味、令人厌烦的马刺球员再次赢得总冠军，至少那将归功于一个可以突破的后卫，而不是那个脚步缓慢、单调乏味的蒂姆·邓肯。
15. It may seem reckless, but what's really nice about this attitude is the emphasis on feeling something as you go through life, not simply plodding along.
    虽然他们的做法看起来是有点鲁莽，但是这才是生活的真谛，而不是简单的过日子。
16. They're happy plodding along slowly and creating this perception of a space race.
    他们愉快地缓慢前行，形成太空竞赛的感观。
17. 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。
18. She's one of those dull plodding people, who gets things done but has no imagination.
    她是个乏味苦干的人，虽能完成任务，但毫无想象力。
19. A woman in a fluttering shawl was creeping slowly by the railings, staggering as she went. The old man was plodding wearily along the band of the river.
    一个女人，裹着飘动的披肩，沿河边的栏杆慢慢走着，脚步有些踉跄。
20. 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。
21. Plodding regulators can do little to change that fact.
    行动迟缓的监管机构对此无能为力。
22. She found herself plodding across the back of the auditorium, praying for guidance, to an empty seat.
    她发现自己缓慢的穿过了礼堂的后面，她祈祷有人指引她找到空位子。
23. A little girl in bare feet was plodding through the snow.
    一个赤足的小女孩艰辛地在雪地上走着。
24. A quiet plodding horse.
    安静进行单调沉重劳动的马。
25. 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。
26. Even her loyalty to Ashley could not make her believe he had been responsible for much of this well-being, for tara's bloom was not the work of a planter-aristocrat, but of the plodding, tireless "small farmer" who loved his land.
    她虽然对艾希礼是一片忠心，也不认为艾希礼为这兴旺景象作了多少贡献，因为塔拉的兴旺绝不是靠一位种田的贵族，而是靠一个热爱土地的“小农”的辛勤劳动。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. 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？
30. 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。

noun

1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
   1. I could recognize his plod anywhere

   Synonym:    plod

2. hard monotonous routine work

   Synonym:    drudgerygrinddonkeywork

adj

1. (of movement) slow and laborious
   1. leaden steps

   Synonym:    leaden