time-consuming

英 [ˈtaɪm kənsjuːmɪŋ]

美 [ˈtaɪm kənsuːmɪŋ]

adj.  费时的; 耗时间的

TOEFL

Collins.1

牛津词典

adj.

• 费时的；耗时间的
  taking or needing a lot of time
  1. a difficult and time-consuming process
     困难而又费时的过程

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 耗时的;费时的
  If something istime-consuming, it takes a lot of time.
  1. It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data...
     获取如此大量的数据非常费时。
  2. Starting a new business, however small, is a time-consuming exercise.
     创办一家新企业，不管多小，都是件旷日持久的事。

英英释义

adj

• of a task that takes time and patience

双语例句

• This might not be desirable, and it makes linking multiple DLLs a time-consuming task.
  这可能并不是所需要的，并且将使得连接多个DLL变成一项非常耗时的任务。
• This is a time-consuming, error-prone process that is seldom reproducible.
  这是一个耗时的又容易犯错的过程，因而这个过程几乎不可重复。
• This process can be time-consuming and exhausting, especially when it is applied to a complex problem.
  这个过程可能很花时间、令人疲惫，尤其是在应用到一个复杂的问题上。
• The test teams and tools teams inevitably have costly and time-consuming disagreements over the tools.
  测试团队和工具团队不可避免地要在工具的成本和时间消耗上产生分歧。
• This piece of work is rather time-consuming.
  这项工作很费时。
• Automated collection also reduces the need for time-consuming and expensive manual collection, analysis, and management.
  自动的收集还减少了对时间消耗和昂贵的手工收集、分析和管理的需要。
• One is the time-consuming and error-prone tasks associated with manual operation in a huge infrastructure like UCM.
  一个是在巨大的类似UCM这样的基础架构中手工操作时，产生的耗时和容易出错的问题。
• This allows the app to offload some of the complex and time-consuming processing to Yahoo! s cloud.
  这允许应用程序减少了某些复杂和耗时的Yahoo！云处理。
• It was a time-consuming and fiddly job
  这项工作耗时费事。
• This can be a time-consuming operation.
  这是一个耗时的操作。