toil
toil 英 [tɔɪl] 美 [tɔɪl]
n. 辛苦；苦工 v. 苦干；艰难地行进
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
- v. 苦干；艰难地行进
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1. They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun.
他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈。
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2. a life of hardship and toil
艰难劳苦的一生
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3. The book is a toil to read.
这本书读起来真费劲。
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4. The workers toiled all through the night.
工人们通宵达旦地辛勤劳动着。
- 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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