plodder

基本解释

And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.
還有人說斯賓塞是個勤奮的實乾家而不是獨創性的思想家。
The open recruitment is an acknowledgment that Softbank has become big—and that he wants to keep it entrepreneurial, so it doesn’t end up a timid plodder like so many other firms in Japan.
這個公開的招聘行爲說明軟銀已經十分強大了，但他希望軟銀可以一直保持其創業時的特征。而不是最終成爲一個膽小怕事、步履沉重的大公司，就像絕大多數日本公司一樣。
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He tries to play 10 matches a year, but is frustrated by being “a plodder, a grafter, slow but sure… You're either good or you're bad,” he muses as our time draws to a close.
他試圖一年打滿10場比賽，但是有點喪氣。因爲他“磨磨嘰嘰，晃晃悠悠，慢得可以……這種球員要不很好，要不很差。” 我們的時間不多了，他開始講起笑話來。

The Reverend William Thornton who blogs on Southern Baptist Convention issues under the title SBC Plodder is the man.
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If you say that someone is a plodder, you have a low opinion of them because they work slowly and steadily but without showing enthusiasm or having new ideas.