plodder

基本解释

And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.
还有人说斯宾塞是个勤奋的实干家而不是独创性的思想家。
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.
这个公开的招聘行为说明软银已经十分强大了，但他希望软银可以一直保持其创业时的特征。而不是最终成为一个胆小怕事、步履沉重的大公司，就像绝大多数日本公司一样。
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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.
他试图一年打满10场比赛，但是有点丧气。因为他“磨磨叽叽，晃晃悠悠，慢得可以……这种球员要不很好，要不很差。” 我们的时间不多了，他开始讲起笑话来。

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.