费时 (fèi shí) — to take time, to be time-consuming
Definition
费时 describes an activity that consumes a lot of time — 'time-consuming, laborious'. As a predicate it often takes an object (费了很多时间) or appears as an attribute (费时的任务).
verb
to take timeto be time-consuming
Examples
- 费时。Zuò zhè jiàn shì hěn fèi shí.Doing this thing is very time-consuming.
- ，。Wèi le zhè ge xiàng mù, wǒ fèi le hěn duō shí.For this project, I spent a lot of time.
- 费时，。Zhè ge rèn wu tài fèi shí le, wǒ bù xiǎng zuò.This task is too time-consuming; I don't want to do it.
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