plodding是英語中的形容詞及動詞，形容詞意為“單調乏味的；沉重緩慢的”，動詞為plod的現在分詞，表示“沉重地走”或“辛勤工作”。其詞源可追溯至古英語，本義與“沉重踏步”相關，後衍生出抽象領域的持續性動作含義。
作為形容詞，plodding多用於描述缺乏變化的沉悶感，如工作節奏、文本風格或生活狀態，例句如“The novel is heavy and plodding”（小說沉悶冗長）。動詞用法既指物理層面的緩慢行進（如冒雨跋涉），也引申指長期堅持枯燥任務（如調查、談判等），短語如“plodding along”強調持續緩慢的進程。搭配場景覆蓋日常生活、文學評論及專業領域（如金融、工程）。
該詞在語言演變中逐漸擴展至抽象領域，現代英語中既可描述具體行為（如雪地行走），也可修飾抽象進程（如政策推進）。其近義詞包括leaden、slog等，反義詞為effortless。發音分英式/ˈplɒdɪŋ/與美式/ˈplɑːdɪŋ/，語法形態含比較級（more plodding）及副詞形式（ploddingly）。
基本介紹
- 外文名：plodding
- 詞性：形容詞、動詞
- 英式發音：[ˈplɒdɪŋ]
- 美式發音：[ˈplɑːdɪŋ]
單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
plod /plɒd/ ( plodding, plodded, plods )
1.V-I If someone plods, they walk slowly and heavily. 緩慢沉重地走
2.V-I If you say that someone plods on or plods along with a job, you mean that the job is taking a long time. 苦幹
短語搭配
plodding g 沉重緩慢的
plodding a 沉重的
flee plodding 逃避
vacuum plodding 真空出條
plodding along 緩慢地前進
vacuum cooling plodding 真空冷卻出條
Plodding But Very Decent 乏味但很得體
the plodding daily feel 這種每天都很沉重的感覺
雙語例句
He is plodding on with negotiations.
他正進行艱苦的談判。
《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
I watched her plodding her way across the field.
我注視著她步履艱難地穿過田野。
《牛津詞典》
Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought.
在水渠的一個拐彎處，一匹孤獨的馬拖著沉重的步子走過來，它向前彎著腰，仿佛心事很重。
He came plodding to the inn door.
他拖著沉重的步伐來到旅店門口。
They're still plodding along with their investigation.
他們仍然在不厭其煩地進行調查。
We humans — plodding as we are — will astonish ourselves.
我們人類，儘管跬步前行，卻終將令自己大吃一驚。
Once he gave his raincoat to a derelict plodding in the rain.
他會把他的雨衣給了那些忘了帶雨具的人。
Yet Mr Wolfensohn's memoir is plodding and for the most part bloodless;
然而，沃爾芬森先生的回憶錄讀來猶如嚼蠟，通篇大部分都毫無感情可言；
Now, Bill came in sight plodding up the hill. Jane laughed and she called to him.
就在這時，比爾出現了，他正吃力地從山下爬上來，簡笑著叫他。
They're happy plodding along slowly and creating this perception of a space race.
他們愉快地緩慢前行，形成太空競賽的感觀。
Plodding around in evil weather in the dark can be very mind numbing, I assure you.
在昏暗惡劣的天氣里艱難行走，我敢擔保，那會讓你的思維完全麻木。
If your code is plodding, however, you may want to take the matter into your own hands.
但是，如果代碼運行緩慢，您可能更希望自己處理。
But her arguments are scarcely original and her plodding prose makes her the least stylish of the critics.
但是她的論點幾乎不是新鮮的，而且她的單調的平鋪直敘使她成了最不時髦的批評者。
Italy, for instance, announced a plan last week to clean out bad loans from its plodding banking industry.
比如，義大利上周就宣布了一項計畫，要清除該國舉步維艱的銀行體系中的壞賬。
Paolo Scaroni, Eni's boss, sees the firm's peculiar mix of swashbuckling exploration and plodding distribution as a virtue.
埃尼的老闆PaoloScaroni認為把虛張聲勢的勘探和緩慢的分布的公司的特殊混合是一種美德。
Terrible! I've got tons of Numbers to add up everyday, and that's all I do. I never thought I would have a plodding job like this.
糟透了！我每天都要加成堆成堆的數字，除了這個就沒有別的了。從沒想過我會做這么單調乏味的工作。
Forcing the breakout of pure audit firms would separate an exciting and growing business from a plodding but vital one, in Europe at least.
強制剝離出純審計業務公司，將會使得一個令人激動的成長型業務與一個發展緩慢但至關重要的業務分開，至少是在歐洲內會是如此。
With their grey skin, mournful eyes and slow plodding gait, you could be forgiven for thinking elephants are uniformly melancholy creatures.
很多人誤以為，有著灰色皮膚、悲傷眼神、邁著緩慢沉重步履的大象性格都是憂鬱的。
In the end there may be no alternative to plodding on with the membership negotiations and just hoping for a change in the climate on both sides.
最終，也許除了在成員身份談判之路上繼續艱苦前行、並寄希望於雙方氛圍能有所變化之外，別無其他方案可選。
Although reptiles like the dinosaurs were plodding on the ground below them, they were not actually dinosaurs themselves - a common misconception.
儘管同為爬行類的其他恐龍只能在地上跑來跑去，但事實上，翼龍並非真正的恐龍，把它們當作恐龍是個小小的錯覺。
What does good enough mean to you? Does it mean true contentment? Does it mean satisfying the dreams of your heart? Or does it mean plodding along?
對你來說什麼是足夠好？是真正的滿足嗎？是你心中夢想的實現嗎？還是沉重的漫步？
He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champion.
兔子很快地在樹下就睡著了，而一路上笨手笨腳走來的烏龜則超越過它，不一會兒完成比賽，成為貨真價實的冠軍。
