| 单词 | plod-plod |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplod-plod a. An act or spell of plodding; a laborious or tiring walk, a trudge. Frequently figurative: a dull and laborious process or experience. Also with alliterative reduplication, as plod-plod. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > heavy and slow trudging1570 plodding1820 plod-ploda1879 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking laboriously or aimlessly > an act of march1692 tramp1787 trudge1835 trampoose1840 traipse1862 stram1869 ploda1879 foot-slog1900 a1879 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 69 Shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine. 1880 Daily News 3 Nov. 5/8 We accepted an ankle-deep plod through filth indescribable and treacherous boulders. 1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. 13 Only life's common plod: still to repair The body and the thing which perisheth. 1899 B. Tarkington Gentleman from Indiana xv. 266 What was there left but the weary plod, plod, and dust of years? 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 519/2 The angles of the rungs become very painful under the slow plod-plod of the horse's movement. 1975 M. Bradbury Hist. Man ix. 148 The agenda has grown longer..a routine plod through matters of budgets..and examinations. 1991 Cycling Weekly 27 July 24/1 It [sc. the wind] swooped her down and quickly back into her stride again ready for the headwind plod back from Martlesham. < as lemmas |
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