drawn-out

英 [ˌdrɔːn ˈaʊt]

美 [ˌdrɔːn ˈaʊt]

adj.  拖得太久的;冗长的

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柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 拖得太久的;冗长的
  You can describe something asdrawn-outwhen it lasts or takes longer than you would like it to.
  1. Pulling out of a recession is a lengthy and drawn-out process...
     从经济衰退中走出来需要漫长的过程。
  2. The road to peace will be long and drawn-out.
     通往和平的道路将很漫长。

英英释义

adj

• (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels
• relatively long in duration
  1. a drawn-out argument
  2. an extended discussion
  3. a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law
  4. a prolonged and bitter struggle
  5. protracted negotiations
  Synonym:extendedlengthyprolongedprotracted

双语例句

• The road to peace will be long and drawn-out.
  通往和平的道路将很漫长。
• For many others, the past couple of years have been a drawn-out hangover, gradually recovering from an over-indulgence of borrowings.
  对于其它许多企业来说，过去这两、三年可谓一场宿醉，它们花了很长时间，才逐渐从对举债的过度沉迷中苏醒过来。
• In fact, the negotiations may even have picked up pace because the outburst brought home to everyone in the room how drawn-out the discussions had become.
  事实上，谈判甚至可能加快了节奏，因为她的突然爆发让会议室里的所有人认识到，讨论已经拖延了很长时间。
• That was the comment from a friend of mine last week, obviously referring to lampard's drawn-out contract renegotiations.
  这是上周我的一个朋友的评论，显然说的是有关兰帕德最近推迟了合同谈判的事。
• The long drawn-out conflict between the employers and workers led to the strike last week.
  劳资之间旷日持久的纠纷导致了上周的罢工。
• But this is a drawn-out process and, not least, also raises the real value of debt.
  但这是一个漫长的过程，尤其是它还会提高债务的实际价值。
• As Western countries 'warplanes bombed Libya again on Monday in the biggest military attack against an Arab country since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the oil market slowly came to terms with an ominous threat: a long, drawn-out war.
  随着西方国家的战机周一再次轰炸利比亚这是2003年入侵伊拉克以来，西方对阿拉伯国家规模最大的军事打击石油市场慢慢接受了一个不祥之兆：一场旷日持久的战争。
• He was tired of the long drawn-out arguments.
  他对那些冗长乏味的辩论感到厌烦。
• The patient Bull won't have a problem plodding through educational books or drawn-out suspense thrillers.
  耐心的金牛座读枯燥的教育性书籍或漫长的悬念小说一点问题都没有。
• The ADB report says that, even if the markets may have reached bottom, the eventual recovery could still be drawn-out.
  亚洲开发银行的报告指出，即使市场可能已经触底，最终的复苏可能也要拖很长时间。