plod
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
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教材释义与例句
沉重缓慢地走
辛勤工作;沉重地走
释义与例句
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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.
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A puddle.
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the police, police officers
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a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
英国 可数 贬义 不可数
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To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
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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,
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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;
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To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
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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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