1·He is plodding on with negotiations.
他正进行艰苦的谈判。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·I watched her plodding her way across the field.
我注视着她步履艰难地穿过田野。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought.
在水渠的一个拐弯处，一匹孤独的马拖着沉重的步子走过来，它向前弯着腰，仿佛心事很重。
4·He came plodding to the inn door.
他拖着沉重的步伐来到旅店门口。
5·They're still plodding along with their investigation.
他们仍然在不厌其烦地进行调查。
6·We humans — plodding as we are — will astonish ourselves.
我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。
7·Once he gave his raincoat to a derelict plodding in the rain.
他会把他的雨衣给了那些忘了带雨具的人。
8·Yet Mr Wolfensohn's memoir is plodding and for the most part bloodless;
然而，沃尔芬森先生的回忆录读来犹如嚼蜡，通篇大部分都毫无感情可言；
9·Now, Bill came in sight plodding up the hill. Jane laughed and she called to him.
就在这时，比尔出现了，他正吃力地从山下爬上来，简笑着叫他。
10·They're happy plodding along slowly and creating this perception of a space race.
他们愉快地缓慢前行，形成太空竞赛的感观。
1·Perhaps they abandoned the plodding vagaries of biological evolution eons ago to engineer a new form of existence, one likely to be practically immortal.
或许它们经过数亿年的进化，早已放弃了单调乏味而又多变的生物进化，而且得到了生命新的存在形式，这种生命可能已经不朽。
2·A plodding general miner, it may find it hard to haggle with the canny and highly knowledgeable dealers who are the prime customers for rough diamonds.
让一个单调乏味的普通矿工同一个精明事故的商人讨价还价可谓难于上青天，而这些商人却正是原钻的主要客户。