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

• To avoid this expensive and time-consuming process, they now can use an electronic file management system.
  为避免这种昂贵费时的过程，他们现在可以使用的电子文件管理系统。
• Unfortunately, doing this manually is almost prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.
  不幸的是，手工的进行这一操作在成本上和时间消耗上几乎是不可行的。
• It was a time-consuming and fiddly job
  这项工作耗时费事。
• 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。
• This leads to time-consuming maintenance and code modifications and not being able to accurately forecast time and costs.
  这导致维护和代码修改工作非常耗时，并且无法准确预测时间和成本。
• There is no time-consuming installation and integration work needed to activate fragment caching.
  激活片断缓存不需要进行费时的安装和集成工作。
• 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。
• The time-consuming work and production losses usually associated with aligning are eliminated.
  通常和校准联系在一起的耗时工作和产品损失现象可以被消除。
• However, this was a highly skilled and time-consuming job, done only by trained craftsmen.
  然而，这是一件对技巧要求很高、很花时间的工作，只能由训练有素的工匠来完成。
• This can be a time-consuming operation.
  这是一个耗时的操作。