plough through

• • 艰难地通过：

    Ploughing through the deep snow in my high boots,I finally reached the farmhouse.

    穿着高统靴艰难地在深雪里前进，最终我到了农庄的住宅。

  • [口语]费劲(或艰难)地阅读(或研究)，吃力地钻研：

    The graduate student ploughed through hundreds of pages of material to unearth a single fact.

    为了找一个简单的事实，这位硕士研究生费力地查阅了数百页的资料。