Pains
[penz]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
編輯:帕梅拉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [Used in the singular number by the best writers.] Labor, care, trouble, toilsome effort.
弗朗西丝編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He took pains to prove that he only just tolerated me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr. Jarndyce took great pains to talk with him seriously and to put it to his good sense not to deceive himself in so important a matter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If it were even to take pains to prevent their importation, it would not be able to effectuate it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- H istor y of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The woman was holding her wrist and timing the pains with a watch. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I've been having some pains, darling. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It would be wisdom to abandon it now, after all the time, anxiety, and pains I have bestowed upon it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He took no pains to conceal his calculations and tactics. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
手打:诺娜