She went about her work day and night. It was slow work. When she became tired, the number of creatures she made was still very small.

她夜以继日，不停劳作，可是进展不快。到了筋疲力竭之际，还是没有造出多少泥人。

youdao

It was slow work to find the English gold guineas that we needed.

从中找到我们需要的英国畿尼是件很费时的事。

youdao

Drilling unit has the functions including rapid falling, slow work-feeding and quick feeding back to improve working efficiency.

钻孔单元具有空行程快进，慢速工进和快速回程功能，提高工作效率。

youdao

He says the outer parts of brown rice slow down the work of the body's digestive enzymes into starch.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

So there's going to be lots of times in this class when we get to play games, we get to have classroom discussions and so on, but there's going to be some times when we have to slow down and do some work, and the next twenty minutes are going to be that.

我们在课上会经常,通过游戏学习博弈,我们还会举行随堂讨论等等,但是我们也需要花费一些时间,来慢慢研究一些问题,接下来的二十多分钟就是这样的

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But the work was slow with only two men and not much equipment.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

EU's role in awkward areas like crime and immigration has been grindingly slow work.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

To really lock things down would just slow work down, which is clearly not the goal.

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Men methodically scythe the long grass, backbreaking and slow work.

BBC: Nomadic Kyrgyzstan