plod

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /plɒd/    美 /plɑd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. uncountable
    — We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
  2. A puddle. obsolete
  3. the police, police officers UK,derogatory,mildly,uncountable,usually
  4. a police officer, especially a low-ranking one. UK,countable,derogatory,mildly,usually
动词 v.
  1. To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). intransitive
    — The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
  2. To trudge over or through. transitive
    — Quest[ion]. Where was Ioseph? Answ[er]. It may be, he was playing the Carpenter abrode for all their three livings, but sure it is, he was not idlely plodding the streetes, much lesse tipling in the Taverne with our idle swingers.
  3. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. intransitive
    — On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
  4. To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets. transitive

词形变化

plods present,singular,third-person plodding participle,present plodded participle,past plodded past plods plural plods plural

词汇关系

衍生词
outplod plodder plodding Plodgate For quotations using this term Citations:plod plastic plod

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *plodden (found only in derivative plodder), probably originally a splash through water and mud, from plodde, pludde (“a puddle”) (whence modern plud). Compare Scots plod, plodge, plodder, dialectal Dutch plodden, plodderen, dialectal German ploddern, Danish pladder (“mire”).
词源 2
From Middle English plod. Cognate with Danish pladder (“mire”).
词源 3
From PC Plod.
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