toil

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n. 辛苦, 苦工, 网, 罗网, 圈套 vi. 苦干, 跋涉

发音

US /tɔɪl/

词形变化

toils 复数 toils toil'd toiled toilest toileth toiling toils 三单 toiling 现在分词 toiled 过去式 toiled 过去分词

别名

twile toyle

教材释义与例句

名词

辛苦；苦工；网；圈套

动词

费力地做；使…过度劳累

动词

辛苦工作；艰难地行进

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

    辛劳

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Trouble, strife.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

    可数 不可数
v. B2
  1. 1.

    To labour; work.

    辛劳

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To struggle.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To work (something); often with out.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To weary through excessive labour.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

labor labour

上位词 1

work

下位词 10

hunt hunting effort sweat slavery grind exertion roping overwork drudgery
动词

同义词 8

dig labor labour fag grind drudge moil travail

上位词 1

work

相关短语

toil and moil 辛辛苦苦地工作

词源

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”). An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.

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