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

• 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。
• 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 can be a time-consuming operation.
  这是一个耗时的操作。
• 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。
• In addition, training people to understand and consistently apply a classification can be time-consuming.
  此外，培训人们去理解和一致地应用一种分类是很费时的。
• 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。
• Testing software can be time-consuming and expensive, especially as software systems are increasing in scope and complexity.
  测试软件是非常耗时和昂贵的，尤其是，当软件系统不断的扩大，复杂度不断增加。
• 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。
• It was a time-consuming and fiddly job
  这项工作耗时费事。
• 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。