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plod

/plod/US // plɒd //UK // (plɒd) //

蹒跚学步,蹒跚而行,蹒跚前行,蹒跚学步的人

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    plod·ded, plod·ding.

    • : to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
    • : to proceed in a tediously slow manner: The play just plodded along in the second act.
    • : to work with constant and monotonous perseverance; drudge.
v.有主动词 verb
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    plod·ded, plod·ding.

    • : to walk heavily over or along.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or a course of plodding.
    • : a sound of a heavy tread.

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Examples

  • He was slower than the rest, less imaginative, and he tended to plod a bit.

  • As the animal's heavy feet plod over the ground, worms and insects come to the surface.

  • Here was no two-miles plod back again over the burning asphalt, slackening every nerve that had been braced up by the bathe.

  • Oh, the weariness of that eternal plod through the rough grassy ground, the coldness, the interminable darkness!

  • But at a slow pace it was possible to plod on without undue exhaustion.

  • For such a search as this the swift aeroplane could serve while one might plod in vain over the ground.