0 A time-consuming task takes a lot of time to do. -- 耗費時間的；曠日持久的
Producing a dictionary is a very time-consuming job. 編字典是件很費時間的工作。
Many supplementary published writings, especially brief news and travel reports from nineteenth-century newspapers and journals, are rarely quoted because they are time-consuming to trace.
Currently, however, the processes for obtaining research governance approval are often poorly organized and time-consuming, and may threaten the feasibility of multi-centre research studies.
The process of producing a rendering from such a detailed model is painful and time-consuming.
Breeding for perennial species is a time-consuming, laborious task, and the release of suitable cultivars is still perhaps 25 years away.
This method is not only costly, but requires comprehensive, time-consuming data interpretation.
Training was costly, time-consuming and inherently risky, since a new skill could quickly become obsolete or fail to attract sufficient work to merit the investment.
I have already mentioned above that some of the artwork is not aligned properly and makes it somewhat time-consuming to study metrical derivations.
Thus, the prototype machine did not have a usable interface which meant experimentation was time-consuming and error-prone.
