toilsome

英 ['tɔɪlsəm]

美 ['tɔɪlsəm]

adj.  辛苦的

COCA.45586

英英释义

adj

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
  1. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
  2. a grueling campaign
  3. hard labor
  4. heavy work
  5. heavy going
  6. spent many laborious hours on the project
  7. set a punishing pace
  Synonym:arduousbackbreakinggruelinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishing

双语例句

• To live in the United States, many ethnic Mexicans work toilsome jobs that are not protected with even the most basic health insurance.
  许多在美国居住的墨西哥裔努力打拼生活，却没有最基本的健康保险、医疗保障；
• I know learning like this is toilsome and ineffective, but I can't spare other time for study.
  虽然这样比较辛苦，而且也不利于学习，但是我实在是无法抽出时间来学习了，只好这样。
• We have marched since daybreak, we have reached the evening of a long and toilsome day;
  人们从天明走起，辛辛苦苦，长途跋涉了一整天，直走到天黑；
• In need to have her talent recognized and burdened with the issues of survival, she had to make her toilsome to "fame".
  肯定自我才华的需要和生存压力的重担，使她不得不踏上追逐名的漫漫长路。
• 'set off up the road again, over the toilsome way they had come. It's going to be hard work but we'll win through in the end.
  说着，他就朝他们辛辛苦苦走过来的原路走去。那将是艰巨的工作，不过历经千辛万苦后我们最后会取得胜利的。
• Housework is usually miscellaneous and toilsome.
  家务劳动通常是繁杂的。
• A rain now came on, which continued for two or three hours, and made the road slippery and toilsome.
  现在下了一场雨，一连下了两三个钟头，使得路上泞滑难行。
• His tool to mend shoes was manually operated. He thought, if one day he had a machine to mend shoes, the work would be less toilsome.
  当时，他补鞋的机器都是手工摇的，他就想哪天有机械的机器，补鞋就不这么辛苦了。
• Each time he returned home after a day's work, he was too tired to do anything further, feeling quite toilsome.
  每次忙完一天的活儿，回到家里，他都累得什么也不想做，觉得辛苦极了。
• Whenever the grass was dry the children would cut across me fields instead of keeping to the road. 'set off up the road again, over the toilsome way they had come.
  每当草木枯干时，孩子们宁走荒野也不去走大路。说着，他就朝他们辛辛苦苦走过来的原路走去。