| 释义 |
slow-moving, a.
[slow adv.]
That moves or goes slowly; slow-going.
predic.1720Pope Iliad xxii. 494 Be this the song, slow-moving toward the shore. 1784Cowper Task i. 160 Thence with what pleasure have we just discern'd The distant plough slow moving. 1856Aytoun Bothwell ii. xxvii. 75 Overhead a meteor came, Slow-moving, tinging..The murky clouds.
attrib.1784Cowper Task vi. 697 The statesman of the day, A pompous and slow-moving pageant, comes. 1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 54/2 The arteries of the limbs in several slow-moving animals. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 308 Large droves of patient, slow-moving cattle arrived.
b. transf. Making slow progress; advancing or acting slowly.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 76 The slow-moving Reformation we labour under. 1878Morley Carlyle 160 Our slow-moving and unimaginative public. 1899Mackail W. Morris II. 237 At last the slow-moving arm of authority came down upon it. |