Conversely, in every organization there are some highly effective plodders.

而从另一方面来看，不管在什么机构里，人们总能见到一些工作效率颇高的埋头苦干者。

I pitied the plodders who slaved in offices for a mere salary.

我可怜那些为了薪水而在办公室工作的苦工。

Was a particular dinosaur a fast runner, or a slow plodder?

某只恐龙是跑得快还是吃力慢？

He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was.

他是个大好人，就是沉闷老实了点。

Yet I was rich, political life courted me; I was not the weary plodder of 1814.

然而我很富有， 政治生活向我示好； 我不是 1814 年疲倦的苦工。

He was the plodder, the bookkeeper, the economizer, the man who had an eye for microscopic details.

他是勤劳的人、簿记员、节俭者， 是一个善于观察微观细节的人。

While others rush around in the frenzy and busyness which very bright people so often confuse with " creativity, " the plodder puts one foot in front of the other and gets there first, like the tortoise in the old fable.

就在其他人来来去去忙得不亦乐乎的时候，(许多有才华的人常常将这种无谓的忙碌与“发挥创造性”混淆在一起，)这些埋头苦干者却一步一个脚印，最终还是他们先把事情干完，这使我们想起了龟兔赛跑的寓言。