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[/tɔɪl; tɔɪl/] v (fml or rhet 文或修辞) 用法:
1 [I, Ipr, Ip, It] ~ away (at/over sth) work long or hard 长时间或辛苦工作:
students toiling over their homework 辛辛苦苦做功课的学生 *
We toiled away all afternoon to get the house ready for our guests. 我们忙了一下午收拾房子准备迎接宾客. 用法:
2 [Ipr, Ip] move slowly and with difficulty in the specified direction 缓慢而艰难地向某方向移动:
The bus toiled up the steep hill. 公共汽车艰难地爬上陡峭的山岗. *
The ground was muddy and uneven, but we toiled on. 地面泥泞不平, 我们仍吃力地向前走. toil 2
n [U] (fml or rhet 文或修辞) hard or lengthy work 辛苦的或长时间的工作:
after years of toil 辛苦地工作了多年之後. =>Usage at work1 用法见 work1. |