| 释义 |
snail-slow, a. (and adv.)
[snail n.1]
1. That is as slow as a snail; very sluggish or tardy in motion, progress, etc. Hence as adv.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. v. 47 The patch is..a huge feeder: Snaile-slow in profit. 1803Pic Nic No. 1 (1806) I. 13 France is..cold and snail-slow in redress or justice. 1812Tennant Anster F. iii. viii, The son, impatient, leaves his snail-slow sire. 1901E. Phillpotts Striking Hours 114 Off goes Squire snail-slow. 1951W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 44 Snail-slow moves everything for which we wait. 1974V. Canning Painted Tent x. 203 The time of waiting..had passed snail-slow for Smiler.
2. Marked by excessive slowness of progress.
1900Daily News 12 July 6/2 The era of military reform, which may be said to have begun its snail-slow course in 1870. |