toil
toil 英 [tɔɪl] 美 [tɔɪl]
n. 辛苦；苦工；网；圈套 vi. 辛苦工作；艰难地行进 vt. 费力地做；使…过度劳累
进行时:toiling 过去式:toiled 过去分词:toiled 第三人称单数:toils 名词复数:toils
- Toil is another word for work. You toil as a customer service rep all day, but you'd prefer to work as a rock goddess. Unfortunately, there weren't many ads in the employment section for goddesses — rock or otherwise.
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- n. 辛苦；苦工；网；圈套
- vi. 辛苦工作；艰难地行进
- vt. 费力地做；使…过度劳累
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1. We see on every hand the results of the farmer’s toil and forecast in the springtime.
从每一位农民的手上，我们看到了辛勤劳作的成果和春天期望的实现。
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2. We see on every hand the results of the farmer’s toil and forecast in the springtime.
从每一位农民的手上，我们看到了辛勤劳作的成果和春天期望的实现。
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3. I will still gaze out the window as I write; they will still toil, but now in their dark home.
在写作的同时，我还会遥望窗外，他们会继续辛勤劳作，不过现在他们是在黑暗的家中工作。
- toil (n.1) "hard work," c. 1300, originally "turmoil, contention, dispute," from Anglo-French toil (13c.), from toiler "agitate, stir up, entangle, writhe about," from Old French toeillier "drag about, make dirty" (12c.), usually said to be from Latin tudiculare "crush with a small hammer," from tudicula "mill for crushing olives, instrument for crushing," from Latin tudes "hammer," from PIE *tud-, variant of *(s)teu- "to push, stroke, knock, beat" (see obtuse). Sense of "hard work, labor" (1590s) is from the related verb (see toil (v.)).
- toil (n.2) "net, snare," 1520s, from Middle French toile "hunting net, cloth, web" (compare toile d'araignée "cobweb"), from Old French toile "cloth" (11c.), from Latin tela "web, net, warp of a fabric," from PIE root *teks- "to weave," also "to fabricate." Now used largely in plural (as in caught in the toils of the law).
- toil (v.) early 14c., toilen, "pull at, tug," from Anglo-French toiller, Old French toellier "pull or drag about" (see toil (n.1)). Intransitive meaning "struggle, work hard, labor for considerable time" is from late 14c., perhaps by influence of till (v.). Related: Toiled; toiling.
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