Toil
[tɒɪl] or [tɔɪl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
(v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
(v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.
(v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.
(v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
格温多林手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Labor (hard), work, strive, drudge, moil, exert one's self, take pains.
n. [1]. Labor (that fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work.[2]. Snare, net, trap.
阿德拉錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a net or snare.
v.i. to labour: to work with fatigue.—n. labour esp. of a fatiguing kind.—n. Toil′er.—adjs. Toil′ful Toil′some full of fatigue: wearisome; Toil′less.—adv. Toil′somely.—n. Toil′someness.—adj. Toil′-worn worn out with toil.
吉米編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In actual life, yes, in the moil and toil of propaganda, movements, causes and agitations the statesman-inventor and the political psychologist find the raw material for their work. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- No need, was again her answer--no need, no need: and her small step toiled wearily up the staircase. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He deserved it all--all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I had toiled up a hill which led to Spoleto. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- They toiled through the sand, charging an enemy who always evaded their charge and rode round them and shot them to pieces. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Martin grinned as he toiled up the steep, encumbered field, difficult to the foot as a slope in the upper realms of Etna. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He saw every step which I took to draw my toils round him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For of course she always means something; and before I left Long Island I saw that she was beginning to lay her toils for Mattie. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He remained to combat the fiend--his side unguarded, his toils unshared--infection might even reach him, and he die unattended and alone. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But my toils now drew near a close and, two months from this time, I reached the environs of Geneva. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It is a noble staircase, and from a distance the people toiling up it looked like insects. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Then he limped on again, toiling and muttering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Old Betty Higden fared upon her pilgrimage as many ruggedly honest creatures, women and men, fare on their toiling way along the roads of life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Pondering, in its suggestive presence, I seemed to see a crazy universe of swinging disks, the toiling children of this sedate parent. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The German sword was always clattering over the Alps into Italy, and missions and legates toiling over in the reverse direction. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
錄入:梅利特