time-consuming

adj.

1. 费时的；耗时间的
   taking or needing a lot of time
   1. a difficult and time-consuming process
      困难而又费时的过程

1. ADJ-GRADED 耗时的;费时的
   If something is time-consuming, it takes a lot of time.
   1. It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data...
      获取如此大量的数据非常费时。
   2. Starting a new business, however small, is a time-consuming exercise.
      创办一家新企业，不管多小，都是件旷日持久的事。

1. It was a time-consuming and fiddly job
   这项工作耗时费事。
2. Negotiations would be messy and time-consuming.
   谈判既麻烦又耗时间。
3. Starting a new business, however small, is a time-consuming exercise.
   创办一家新企业，不管多小，都是件旷日持久的事。
4. This piece of work is rather time-consuming.
   这项工作很费时。
5. This is because the deletion of a composite application might be time-consuming.
   这是因为一个复合应用程序的删除可能是耗时的。
6. There is no time-consuming installation and integration work needed to activate fragment caching.
   激活片断缓存不需要进行费时的安装和集成工作。
7. However, in a large system, this would be a time-consuming, error-prone job.
   但是，在一个更大的系统中，这将很耗费时间，并且容易导致错误。
8. As any system administrator can tell you, managing enterprise users and groups is a time-consuming process.
   任何系统管理员都会告诉您，管理企业用户和组是一个耗时的过程。
9. One is the time-consuming and error-prone tasks associated with manual operation in a huge infrastructure like UCM.
   一个是在巨大的类似UCM这样的基础架构中手工操作时，产生的耗时和容易出错的问题。
10. Coordinating work across multiple sites and time zones is more time-consuming and costly than for a collocated project.
    跨多个地点和时区的协调工作比集中的项目更耗费时间和成本。
11. This might not be desirable, and it makes linking multiple DLLs a time-consuming task.
    这可能并不是所需要的，并且将使得连接多个DLL变成一项非常耗时的任务。
12. Unfortunately, doing this manually is almost prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.
    不幸的是，手工的进行这一操作在成本上和时间消耗上几乎是不可行的。
13. In addition, training people to understand and consistently apply a classification can be time-consuming.
    此外，培训人们去理解和一致地应用一种分类是很费时的。
14. Testing software can be time-consuming and expensive, especially as software systems are increasing in scope and complexity.
    测试软件是非常耗时和昂贵的，尤其是，当软件系统不断的扩大，复杂度不断增加。
15. The test teams and tools teams inevitably have costly and time-consuming disagreements over the tools.
    测试团队和工具团队不可避免地要在工具的成本和时间消耗上产生分歧。
16. Automated collection also reduces the need for time-consuming and expensive manual collection, analysis, and management.
    自动的收集还减少了对时间消耗和昂贵的手工收集、分析和管理的需要。
17. This leads to time-consuming maintenance and code modifications and not being able to accurately forecast time and costs.
    这导致维护和代码修改工作非常耗时，并且无法准确预测时间和成本。
18. Indexing a database can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive activity.
    对数据库建立索引可能是一个耗时和资源密集型的活动。
19. This can be a time-consuming operation.
    这是一个耗时的操作。
20. This process can be time-consuming and exhausting, especially when it is applied to a complex problem.
    这个过程可能很花时间、令人疲惫，尤其是在应用到一个复杂的问题上。
21. The time-consuming work and production losses usually associated with aligning are eliminated.
    通常和校准联系在一起的耗时工作和产品损失现象可以被消除。
22. This is a time-consuming, error-prone process that is seldom reproducible.
    这是一个耗时的又容易犯错的过程，因而这个过程几乎不可重复。
23. Manpower to complete these tasks are to be time-consuming, laborious and prone to errors and omissions.
    这些工作都以人力来完成将费时费力，而且容易出现错误和疏漏。
24. The most time-consuming portion of this process is analyzing the assessment and response regarding potential hazards identified.
    这个过程中最耗时的部分就是对识别的潜在的危险进行分析评估和反馈。
25. This allows the app to offload some of the complex and time-consuming processing to Yahoo! s cloud.
    这允许应用程序减少了某些复杂和耗时的Yahoo！云处理。
26. Some of the more time-consuming jobs can now be done by machines.
    有些更费时间的工作现在可以用机器做了。
27. To avoid this expensive and time-consuming process, they now can use an electronic file management system.
    为避免这种昂贵费时的过程，他们现在可以使用的电子文件管理系统。
28. Accelerate analysis of financial information and eliminate time-consuming batch processing.
    加快财务信息的分析和消除耗时的批处理。
29. However, this was a highly skilled and time-consuming job, done only by trained craftsmen.
    然而，这是一件对技巧要求很高、很花时间的工作，只能由训练有素的工匠来完成。
30. But the process is time-consuming.
    但是这个过程很耗费时间。

adj

1. of a task that takes time and patience