plodding的意思|plodding的解释-里氏词典

plodding ['plɒdiŋ]

a. 沉重缓慢的, 单调乏味的

plodding

[ noun ]

hard monotonous routine work

<noun.act>

the act of walking with a slow heavy gait

<noun.act>

I could recognize his plod anywhere

[ adj ]

(of movement) slow and laborious

<adj.all>

leaden steps

Plod \Plod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Plodded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plodding}.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike
or pelt with a clod or clods.]
1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. --Shak.

2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and
patiently. ``Plodding schoolmen.'' --Drayton.

Plodding \Plod"ding\, a.
Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding
student; a man of plodding habits. --{Plod"ding*ly}, adv.

In the other corner is the plodding "Inside Edition," a knockoff of Fox's "A Current Affair" that King World hopes will knock "USA Today" out of the ring.
Compared to a player selected for the England team he is a plodding trundler, non-descript, untalented even.
In one of the most extraordinary political journeys of modern times, Helmut Kohl has shaken off his image as a plodding, unimaginative politician and positioned himself to become the first chancellor of a united Germany.
The plodding performance that most forecasters expect in coming months isn't the sort of economic behavior that normally occurs around the end of an expansion.
Slaving Grace My success comes hard, At my desk there's no nodding; I work long and late, And the proof's in the plodding.
The quarter's gains were an abrupt turnaround from the first quarter, when the average stock fund slipped 2.31% and the plodding money market funds ranked as the second-best performing category of mutual funds.
Assigned to officially head the new unit was Richard Wigton, generally regarded as a loyal but plodding trader; assigned to work with him was Timothy L. Tabor, a young and headstrong former accountant.
The brash outsider was hired five years ago to help transform a plodding bureacracy into a force able to compete in unregulated markets following the breakup of the Bell System.
Wilson, with bland good looks and a plodding speaking style, is the very antithesis of charisma.
They say it doesn't go far enough to overhaul a plodding bureaucractic system and encourage greater productivity and efficiency by embracing free market mechanisms.
Most economists said the figures were encouraging but point to modest growth and a plodding recovery.
However, the filmmakers cloud the issue with loose ends and vagueness and a plodding plot.
But it was the plodding pace of the session, rather than the price action, that dominated conversations on Wall Street.
Ferdinand, played by Mark Lewis Jones, is a plodding, if amiable dolt, and there is no sign that Sarah Woodward's Miranda has benefited from all those years of learned tutorials with her father.

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