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的苦。

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

某只恐龙得快还吃力慢？

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

他好人，就沉闷老实了点。

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 1814 年疲倦的苦。

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

他勤劳的人、簿记员、节俭者， 一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脚印，最终还他们先把事情干完，这使我们想起了龟兔赛的寓言。