Toil



GRE 蓝宝

解释

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• v. / n.辛苦, 辛勤劳作
• ［英］ v. / n.辛苦, 辛勤劳作 ( long strenuous fatiguing labor)
• ［记］ 参考:foil ( 阻挠, 金属箔)
• ［同］ 近形词: foil ( 阻挠, 金属箔) ; coil ( 卷绕) ; roil ( 搅拌)
• ［例］ toil at one's task

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English toile, from Anglo-French toyl, from toiller
• Date: 14th century
• 1. archaic
  • a. struggle, battle
  • b. laborious effort
• 2. long strenuous fatiguing labor
• Synonyms: see work
• ? toilful adjective
• ? toilfully adverb

II. verb

• Etymology: Middle English, to argue, struggle, from Anglo-French toiller to make dirty, fight, wrangle, from Latin tudiculare to crush, grind, from tudicula machine for crushing olives, diminutive of tudes hammer; akin to Latin tundere to beat — more at contusion
• Date: 14th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to work hard and long
  • 2. to proceed with laborious effort ; plod
• transitive verb
  • 1. archaic overwork
  • 2. archaic to get or accomplish with great effort
• ? toiler noun

III. noun

• Etymology: Middle French toile cloth, net, from Old French teile, Latin tela cloth on a loom — more at subtle
• Date: circa 1529
• 1. a net to trap game
• 2. something by which one is held fast or inextricably involved ; snare, trap — usually used in plural<caught in the toils of the law>

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