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

• Coordinating work across multiple sites and time zones is more time-consuming and costly than for a collocated project.
  跨多个地点和时区的协调工作比集中的项目更耗费时间和成本。
• Some of the more time-consuming jobs can now be done by machines.
  有些更费时间的工作现在可以用机器做了。
• Accelerate analysis of financial information and eliminate time-consuming batch processing.
  加快财务信息的分析和消除耗时的批处理。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was a time-consuming and fiddly job
  这项工作耗时费事。
• Manpower to complete these tasks are to be time-consuming, laborious and prone to errors and omissions.
  这些工作都以人力来完成将费时费力，而且容易出现错误和疏漏。