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Definition of plod in English: plodverbplodded, plodding, plods plɒdplɑd 1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps. (顽强、缓慢地)重步走 we plodded back up the hill 我们拖着沉重的步伐回到了山上。 Example sentencesExamples - Neither spoke, so they carried on, the horse plodding slowly along the path.
- Ahead of her, Hans plodded through the mud, hood down and apparently unconcerned that his short black hair was plastered to his thick skull.
- I slowly plodded down the steps of bus.
- I walked into the bar and let out a breath, slowly plodding through the barroom, ignoring the late-night barflies.
- In fact, she plodded along, dragging what was left of her backpack on the ground, too weak to actually carry it.
- Ben slowly plodded over to his bed and slid in between the unwashed sheets, relieved to be able to close his eyes and shut out the world for a few hours.
- Wendy threaded her way around the old firetruck, plodded up the front steps, and continued on up to her room, where she flopped out on her bed, staring at the ceiling.
- Focusing once more on the road, she plodded onward.
- As the predictable plot plods onward, the viewer will sink further and further into despair.
- When she got home, she slowly plodded up the stairs and quietly closed the door behind her as she entered her room.
- I heard their heavy boots slowly plodding across the hardwood floors to the back stairs that led to his room.
- Steven followed the two of them towards the bedrooms, his eyelids feeling very heavy as he plodded his way into his room.
- Stephen plodded up the wooden stairs and plonked himself down on a chair.
- It plods along for 13 minutes, 22 seconds without being musically or lyrically interesting.
- She turned around slowly on her heel and plodded back to her mother.
- She walked all day, plodding down deserted alleyways and running across busy intersections.
- The men plod, doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.
- Only one horse, a massive old mare that plodded slowly and tirelessly, hooves pounding the packed earth of the road with a quiet clop-clopping sound, drew the cart.
- And I was exhausted - probably the walk was a little over-ambitious for me, and I plodded along at an agonising pace for the last couple of hours.
Synonyms trudge, walk heavily, clump, stomp, stump, tramp, drag oneself, lumber, slog Scottish & Northern Irish sprauchle Scottish & Irish traik British informal trog - 1.1 Work slowly and perseveringly at a dull task.
缓慢而顽强地干枯燥的活,埋头苦干,孜孜不倦 we were plodding through a textbook 我们孜孜不倦地学习教科书。 Example sentencesExamples - I find it hard to keep plodding or pottering away with mid-level tasks every day.
- Most of the day I've kept myself busy, working on the website, plodding steadily through the task of establishing a new, unified approach to the archives.
- They were content to plod on with tedious tasks.
- Soon after, he went to work, where he plodded through his daily tasks and his co-workers, most of whom knew bits and pieces of his personal life but none of whom knew the whole story, ignored him.
- Having heard a few of their recorded songs, I thought they would be well up to the task, but in this performance they plodded messily through what could have been an interesting and lively set.
- Though the running time is a slim 83 minutes, I took me well over two hours to plod my way through this dull and dreary mess.
- Education should not be about ensuring that every individual can plod through an officially approved list of tasks, for the sake of multiple bits of paper.
Synonyms work one's way, wade, plough, toil, trawl, soldier (on), proceed laboriously, labour informal slog
nounPlural plods plɒdplɑd 1A slow, heavy walk. 缓慢沉重的行进 he settled down to a steady plod 他开始以缓慢而沉重的步伐行进。 Example sentencesExamples - She was following him at a slow plod.
- And yet it isn't: it continues for eleven more minutes, a grim plod to the finish.
- Intelligent dark eyes surveyed the rain-tossed sky through the windows, the mass of people rushing for shelter then slowing down into a weary plod as they reached the shade awnings and begin their trudging to classes.
- We've been doing this tedious plod for almost five hours, and I think about hypothermia.
- I've missed that slow plod along the Brendon Road to the new graveyard so much it's rather silly.
- In the main the group coped well, getting into a steady plod to get them to the top of the pass.
- Time to get back to the shelter and then to pull my cap firmly down ready for the plod back home.
- Soon I came to the reluctant conclusion that it was going to be an unexciting day, I decided to seek a bit of sun, sea and sand by taking my familiar plod along the front.
- Then it was a dire plod back along Rainhill Road, through Nutgrove then home.
- Wilson paces the book by decades, but too often this can seem to be a bit of a plod.
- I parked the car in a disabled driver's space just by the Quay West local radio station and went for a good plod.
Synonyms walk, trek, tramp, trudge, traipse, slog, footslog, plod, march, journey on foot 2British informal A police officer. 〈英,非正式〉警官 a bunch of plods arrived, offering me a lift to the cop shop Example sentencesExamples - It seems the ordinary plods have some other beefs with the way he runs the police; the Police Union voted no confidence in him earlier this month.
- The book has about as much sensitivity as a crime report written by PC Plod.
- What a wonderful opportunity to send your local plod to a fictitious crime in Walnut Grove while you burgle a house in Acacia Avenue.
- But that is no excuse for treating the scientist like a child who does not know what is good for him and must be protected by the parental arm of PC Plod.
- It cost him a £30 fixed penalty fine and a ticking-off from plod.
- Legally, you'll be able to rant away, apparently to yourself, in your car, and the plod won't trouble you.
- And over the road, taking shelter from the heat and rain in the bushes, another two secret and two uniformed plods.
- They'd only gone and told the plod that we were nothing but a bunch of juvenile hooligans intent only on wrecking the Queen's Peace and ripping apart the very fabric of their corner of Little England.
- She could hear voices, she phoned the police, and 45 minutes later came PC Plod.
- (No early morning knocks on the door yet from the local plods, you'll be glad to hear).
- She added: ‘He called one of them PC Plod and kicked out at another.’
- I mounted my bike and made for home doing a whole 3 mph all the way, followed by the local plod, who was laughing too much to write me a ticket for drunk in charge of a bicycle.
- In the words of PC Plod, " move along, nothing to see here".
- The local plod will claim they are the accident hotspots as the tickets flutter in.
- My mate was chatting to a local plod about a road accident down Selby way, when he was momentarily deafened by the sound of raucous laughter down the telephone.
- Or a thick plod who will not even notice they have no tax disc, no number plates, a large bag marked ‘swag’ in the back seat and blood dripping from the boot and will wave them on their way while whistling tunelessly.
Derivativesnoun ˈplɒdəˈplɑdər 1A person who walks doggedly and slowly with heavy steps. (顽强、缓慢地)重步走 I am more of a plodder than a hiker - 1.1 A person who works in a slow and persevering but uninspired manner.
Example sentencesExamples - But one of his political tricks is to lull people into seeing him as a bit of a grey plodder, when suddenly he'll surprise with a devastating turn of phrase, a damaging soundbite and barbed humour.
- They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.
- She would rouse the indolent, cheer the plodder, steady the unstable and encourage the eager.
- a decent hard-working bloke who is a bit of a plodder
OriginMid 16th century: probably symbolic of a heavy gait. Rhymesbod, clod, cod, god, hod, mod, nod, od, odd, pod, prod, quad, quod, scrod, shod, squad, tod, Todd, trod, wad Definition of plod in US English: plodverbplädplɑd 1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps. (顽强、缓慢地)重步走 we plodded back up the hill 我们拖着沉重的步伐回到了山上。 figurative talks on a new constitution have plodded on 〈喻〉关于新宪法的讨论在缓慢而艰难地进行着。 Example sentencesExamples - The men plod, doggedly, with large unwieldy blackboards slung over their shoulders, but everywhere they look nobody is interested in reading and writing when living from day to day is such a concern.
- Only one horse, a massive old mare that plodded slowly and tirelessly, hooves pounding the packed earth of the road with a quiet clop-clopping sound, drew the cart.
- Wendy threaded her way around the old firetruck, plodded up the front steps, and continued on up to her room, where she flopped out on her bed, staring at the ceiling.
- Focusing once more on the road, she plodded onward.
- I walked into the bar and let out a breath, slowly plodding through the barroom, ignoring the late-night barflies.
- It plods along for 13 minutes, 22 seconds without being musically or lyrically interesting.
- Stephen plodded up the wooden stairs and plonked himself down on a chair.
- Steven followed the two of them towards the bedrooms, his eyelids feeling very heavy as he plodded his way into his room.
- She walked all day, plodding down deserted alleyways and running across busy intersections.
- And I was exhausted - probably the walk was a little over-ambitious for me, and I plodded along at an agonising pace for the last couple of hours.
- In fact, she plodded along, dragging what was left of her backpack on the ground, too weak to actually carry it.
- She turned around slowly on her heel and plodded back to her mother.
- Ahead of her, Hans plodded through the mud, hood down and apparently unconcerned that his short black hair was plastered to his thick skull.
- I heard their heavy boots slowly plodding across the hardwood floors to the back stairs that led to his room.
- I slowly plodded down the steps of bus.
- Neither spoke, so they carried on, the horse plodding slowly along the path.
- Ben slowly plodded over to his bed and slid in between the unwashed sheets, relieved to be able to close his eyes and shut out the world for a few hours.
- When she got home, she slowly plodded up the stairs and quietly closed the door behind her as she entered her room.
- As the predictable plot plods onward, the viewer will sink further and further into despair.
Synonyms trudge, walk heavily, clump, stomp, stump, tramp, drag oneself, lumber, slog - 1.1 Work slowly and perseveringly at a dull task.
缓慢而顽强地干枯燥的活,埋头苦干,孜孜不倦 we were plodding through a textbook 我们孜孜不倦地学习教科书。 Example sentencesExamples - I find it hard to keep plodding or pottering away with mid-level tasks every day.
- Though the running time is a slim 83 minutes, I took me well over two hours to plod my way through this dull and dreary mess.
- Having heard a few of their recorded songs, I thought they would be well up to the task, but in this performance they plodded messily through what could have been an interesting and lively set.
- They were content to plod on with tedious tasks.
- Most of the day I've kept myself busy, working on the website, plodding steadily through the task of establishing a new, unified approach to the archives.
- Education should not be about ensuring that every individual can plod through an officially approved list of tasks, for the sake of multiple bits of paper.
- Soon after, he went to work, where he plodded through his daily tasks and his co-workers, most of whom knew bits and pieces of his personal life but none of whom knew the whole story, ignored him.
Synonyms work one's way, wade, plough, toil, trawl, soldier, soldier on, proceed laboriously, labour
nounplädplɑd A slow, heavy walk. 缓慢沉重的行进 he settled down to a steady plod 他开始以缓慢而沉重的步伐行进。 Example sentencesExamples - And yet it isn't: it continues for eleven more minutes, a grim plod to the finish.
- I've missed that slow plod along the Brendon Road to the new graveyard so much it's rather silly.
- We've been doing this tedious plod for almost five hours, and I think about hypothermia.
- Then it was a dire plod back along Rainhill Road, through Nutgrove then home.
- Soon I came to the reluctant conclusion that it was going to be an unexciting day, I decided to seek a bit of sun, sea and sand by taking my familiar plod along the front.
- Intelligent dark eyes surveyed the rain-tossed sky through the windows, the mass of people rushing for shelter then slowing down into a weary plod as they reached the shade awnings and begin their trudging to classes.
- Wilson paces the book by decades, but too often this can seem to be a bit of a plod.
- I parked the car in a disabled driver's space just by the Quay West local radio station and went for a good plod.
- She was following him at a slow plod.
- In the main the group coped well, getting into a steady plod to get them to the top of the pass.
- Time to get back to the shelter and then to pull my cap firmly down ready for the plod back home.
Synonyms walk, trek, tramp, trudge, traipse, slog, footslog, plod, march, journey on foot
OriginMid 16th century: probably symbolic of a heavy gait. |