plod

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n. 沉重的步伐, 辛勤工作 vi. 沉重地走, 辛勤工作, 孜孜从事 vt. 沉重缓慢地走

发音

UK /plɒd/
US /plɑd/

词形变化

plods 复数 plodded plodding plods 三单 plods plodding 现在分词 plodded 过去式 plodded 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

沉重缓慢地走

动词

辛勤工作;沉重地走

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.

    不可数

    We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.

  2. 1.

    A puddle.

    废旧
  3. 1.

    the police, police officers

    英国 贬义 不可数
  4. 2.

    a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

    英国 可数 贬义 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To trudge over or through.

    及物

    1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451, […] Speed thou to Lombard-street, Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet, 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,

  3. 3.

    To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

    不及物

    On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.

    1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low, which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe, He must be still familiar with the skyes, which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;

  4. 4.

    To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.

    及物

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词源

From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).

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