Bước đi nặng nề, bước đi khó nhọc

Công việc khó nhọc

( + on, along) đi nặng nề, lê bước khó nhọc

( + at) làm cần cù, làm cật lực, làm rán sức

( + along) di chuyển chậm chạp (trong công việc)

( + away) ( at something) làm chắc chắn nhưng chậm (và khó khăn)

Lê bước đi

to plod one's way

lê bước đi một quãng đường

Often, plod along. trudge (along), tramp, slog, drag,tread, lumber, labour, Colloq stomp, galumph: We ploddedwearily up the road carrying our heavy packs.

Often, plodalong or away. labour, work, drudge, toil, moil, slave (away),grind (away or along), grub (on or along), plug (along or away),Brit peg away (at) or along: Plodding through the compilationof the Oxford Thesaurus, he was only halfway through the letterP.

V. (plodded, plodding) 1 intr. (often foll. byalong, on, etc.) walk doggedly or laboriously; trudge.

Intr.(often foll. by at) work slowly and steadily.

Tr. tread ormake (one's way) laboriously.

N. the act or a spell ofplodding.

Plodder n. ploddingly adv. [16th c.: prob. imit.]