plod

verb

1. 艰难地行走；吃力地行进
   to walk slowly with heavy steps, especially because you are tired
   1. Our horses plodded down the muddy track.
      我们的马沿着泥泞小路蹒跚而行。
   2. We plodded on through the rain.
      我们冒雨艰难地跋涉。
   3. I watched her plodding her way across the field.
      我注视着她步履艰难地穿过田野。

1. VERB 沉重缓慢地走；步履艰难地走
   If someone plods, they walk slowly and heavily.
   1. Crowds of French and British families plodded around in yellow plastic macs.
      成群结队的法国和英国家庭穿着黄色塑料雨衣步履沉重地走来走去。
2. VERB 缓慢地进行
   If you say that someone plods on or plods along with a job, you mean that the job is taking a long time.
   1. He is plodding on with negotiations...
      他正缓慢艰难地进行着谈判。
   2. Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
      飞机制造业仍旧举步维艰，发展速度之缓很让人头疼。

1. Crowds of French and British families plodded around in yellow plastic macs.
   成群结队的法国和英国家庭穿着黄色塑料雨衣步履沉重地走来走去。
2. He is plodding on with negotiations
   他正缓慢艰难地进行着谈判。
3. Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
   飞机制造业仍旧举步维艰，发展速度之缓很让人头疼。
4. They walked in silence, surrounded by the soft plod of their footsteps, the rustling of willows, and the singing of birds who infested the breaks.
   他们默默无语地走着，耳边只有自己轻轻的脚步声，柳枝摇曳的沙沙声以及栖息在河湾里的鸟儿欢乐的歌唱声。
5. Thereupon she began to plod back along the road by which she had come not altogether full of hope, but full of a conviction that a crisis in her life was approaching.
   因此，她又开始沿着来路往回跋涉，她来的时候本来就没有抱太大的希望，而只是深信在她的人生中又出现了一次危机。
6. Then we had to plod through my providing a credit card number, e-mail address and directions.
   然后我们不得不费劲地弄完手续，提供我的信用卡卡号、电子邮箱地址，我还给他指了到我家的路该怎么走。
7. Another construction that can make your writing plod is the dummy subject.
   还有一种结构也会让你的文章变得拖沓，它就是虚主语。
8. Under a lethal shower of arrows, the French knights 'cavalry charge turned first into a cavalry plod and then into a foot trudge through deep, sucking ooze.
   在一片致命的箭雨之下，法国骑士的冲锋骑兵先是步伐变得沉重，随后便陷入了深厚的、具有吸附力的淤泥中。
9. We'd run outside to watch the caravan plod through our street, men with dusty, weather-beaten faces and women dressed in long, colorful shawls, beads, and silver bracelets around their wrists and ankles.
   我们会跑出去，看着他们的队伍在街道上行进，男人满身尘灰，脸色沧桑，女人披着长长的、色彩斑斓的肩巾，挂着珠链，手腕和脚踝都戴着银镯子。
10. Are you coming for lunch? No, I think I'll just plod on for a bit.
    你来吃午饭吗？不，我想再干一会儿。
11. In the South, where I grew up, such roads are called cow trails because they are frequented by farm equipment and vehicles that plod along at bovine speed.
    我在南方长大，那里把这种路叫“赶牛小道”，因为路上都是农用设备和车辆，行驶车辆都像牛似的缓慢。
12. We'd just plod along in life.
    那我们这辈子注定辛劳。
13. We call them "the Bill" or "the Plod" and they have two-way radios, travel by car and may be armed with guns.
    现在我们叫他们“比尔”或“普罗德”。他们都佩带对讲机，乘车巡逻而且有时可能还配备枪支。
14. The secret of good work to plod away and still keep the passion flesh.
    做好工作的秘诀在于坚持不懈地干下去并保持热情不减。
15. He was destined to plod the path of toil.
    他注定要在艰辛的道路上跋涉。
16. To walk in a laborious, heavy-footed way; plod.
    跋涉沉重吃力地行走。
17. Not yielding to fatigue; untiring or indefatigable. They had to plod wearily on up the hill.
    不知疲倦的不易于疲惫的；不疲劳的或不屈不挠的他们不得不迈着疲倦的步子登上山。
18. They had to plod wearily on up the hill.
    他们不得不迈着疲倦的步子登上山。
19. Plod's bringing in your stuff.
    波洛德正把你的东西拿过来。
20. They had to plod wearily on up the hill He was above all a good and tireless writer.
    他们不得不迈著疲倦的步子登上山.他首先是位优秀的、不知疲倦的作家。
21. Plod onward, and get plenty of rest.
    之后，赶，还要充分休息。
22. Do you plod into the office, eyes down, shoulders slumped, and immediately start work?
    每每踏进公司，你是否都举步维艰，目光闪缩，耷耸着双肩，恨不得立刻将自己隐匿于繁忙的工作之中？
23. But he also admitted it had made him a laughing stock as people drew comparisons with him and Mr Plod from cartoon series Noddy from Toytown.
    但他也承认，他也因此成了人们的笑柄，他被人们比作动画片《诺弟来啦》里面的普拉先生。
24. Consumer spending is not expected to energise the recovery in 2010, but rather plod along at relatively subdued rates.
    预计今年消费开支无法为经济复苏提供动力，而只能保持相当缓慢的脚步。
25. These old pals go up in respective post plod old, the majority can be accomplished clean-fingered act according to fair, made graven contribution for country, humanness civilian.
    这些老同志在各自的岗位上辛勤工作了多年，绝大部分都能够做到廉洁奉公，为国家、为人民做出了不可磨灭的贡献。
26. Network Topology Generating Algorithm for Power-Laws PLOD~+
    一种遵循幂率分布的网络拓扑生成算法PLOD~+

  walk pace plod stagger stride toddle totter【导航词义：行走】

  walk v. 走，步行

〔辨析〕指行走的最普通用词，通常后接副词或介词。

  pace v. 踱步，走动

〔辨析〕尤指因紧张、担忧、不耐烦等而来回踱步。

  plod v. 沉重缓慢地走

〔辨析〕指脚步缓慢、步履艰难地行走。

  stagger v. 蹒跚，摇摇晃晃地走

〔辨析〕通常指因虚弱、负重、醉酒等而导致身体失去平衡或行走失态，强调不稳定性和失控性。

  stride v. 〈书〉大踏步走

〔辨析〕强调步子大而有力，往往伴有或显露出匆忙、自傲、精力充沛等状态。

  toddle v. 蹒跚行走

〔辨析〕特指幼儿因学步而摇摇晃晃地小步行走。

  totter v. 踉跄，蹒跚

〔辨析〕指尤因醉酒或患病而摇摇晃晃、跌跌撞撞地行走，好像要跌倒似的。

plod along/on

1. 进展缓慢（尤指艰难枯燥的工作）
   to make very slow progress, especially with difficult or boring work
   1. Our horses plodded down the muddy track.
      我们的马沿着泥泞小路蹒跚而行。
   2. We plodded on through the rain.
      我们冒雨艰难地跋涉。
   3. I watched her plodding her way across the field.
      我注视着她步履艰难地穿过田野。

noun

1. the act of walking with a slow heavy gait
   1. I could recognize his plod anywhere

   Synonym:    plodding

verb

1. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   1. Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

   Synonym:    slogfootslogtrudgepadtramp