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To plod is to walk along slowly, with heavy steps, when walking is hard — you are tired, the bag is heavy, the hill is long, or the ground is thick with mud. You do not plod across a room to answer the phone; you plod up a farm track in the rain. The feeling is effort, not style. People stretch it in a friendly way: you can plod through a long book or a dull job, meaning you keep going, slowly, until it is done. In older British talk, “the plod” can mean the police, from the picture of an officer walking the street step after slow step — informal, and a bit dated.
拖著沉重的步子走；跋涉
組成From Middle English *plodden (found in the old related word plodder). It probably began as a splash through water and mud, from plodde / pludde, “a puddle” (the same root as the rare word plud). Scots has plod / plodge; some kinds of Dutch and German have similar splash-in-mud words; Danish pladder is “mire”.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
plodnoun詞源 1/plɒd/
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A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod.
- Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
plodverb詞源 1/plɒd/
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To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
- The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
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To trudge over or through.
- 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.
- 1799, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Love of Gain, London: J. Bell, p. 50, lines 449-451, […] Speed thou to Lombard-street, Or plod the gambling 'Change with busy feet, 'Midst Bulls and Bears some false report to spread,
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To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
- On Sundays I keep plodding along at my job.
- 1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, Poore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low, which by probations, rules and axiom’s goe, He must be still familiar with the skyes, which notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;
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To extrude (soap, margarine, etc.) through a die plate so it can be cut into billets.
plodnoun詞源 2/plɒd/
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obsoleteA puddle.
plodnoun詞源 3/plɒd/
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derogatorythe police, police officers
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derogatorya police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。