toil

英 [tɔɪl] 美 [tɔɪl]

• n. 辛苦；苦工；罗网；圈套
• v. 费力地做；苦干；跋涉

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vi. 长时间或辛苦地工作

   work hard,labor with little reward or relief

n. (名词)

1. [U]报酬很低的苦活

   hard work with little reward;drudgery

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 圈套，阴谋
2. 苦工，苦役
3. 辛苦，劳累，劳苦，劳碌
4. 难事，困境
5. 罗网，罗纲，纲
6. 魔力，迷惑力
7. 劳动，工作
8. 心血，血汗
9. 迷魂阵

v. 动词

1. 苦干，辛苦地工作，辛勤劳动，辛劳
2. 艰难地行进，跋涉，艰难缓慢地移动
3. 耕种
4. 费力地做
5. 使…过度劳累

英英释义

Noun:

1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages);

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
   

Verb:

1. work hard;

   "She was digging away at her math homework"
   "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. We were quite exhausted with the toil.
   我们因那件辛苦的工作而感到十分疲惫。
2. Every grain of it comes from hard toil.
   粒粒皆辛苦。
3. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and ill-paid toil.
   他的青年时期便是那样在干着报酬微薄的辛苦工作中消磨过去的。
4. He was destined to plod the path of toil.
   他注定要在艰辛的道路上跋涉。
5. She was caught in the toils of despair.
   她陷于绝境。
6. The thief was caught in the toils of the law.
   窃贼落入了法网。

用作动词 (v.)

1. I shall have to toil and moil all my days.
   我必须一年到头拼命地干。
2. We toil away all afternoon to get the house ready for our guest.
   我们忙了一下午收拾房子准备迎接宾客。
3. The slaves toiled up the hill pulling the heavy blocks.
   那些奴隶艰难地把沉重的石块拖上山。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The workers toiled all through the night.
   工人们通宵达旦地辛勤劳动着。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.
   财富来自大众的辛勤劳动。

经典引文

• Weapons, made For the hard toils of war.

  出自： Longfellow

• As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.

  出自：Anthony Cleopatra , Shakespeare

• Soldiers in the toils of civilian law for thefts.

  出自： E. Birney

• Servants..toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes.

  出自： Scott Fitzgerald

• He toiled at his treatise on volcanoes.

  出自： A. N. Wilson

词义辨析

v. (动词)

toil, labour, work

• 这组词的共同意思是“劳动”“工作”。其区别在于：
• 1.labour通常指需要花很大力气并使人疲乏的体力劳动,也可指脑力劳动,但仅限于具体特殊困难的事情。
• 2.work含义很广,指任何有目的性的劳动,不论劳动的难易、轻重、时间的长短,是体力劳动还是脑力劳动,也可用来指机器等的操作。例如:
• He brought work home from the office.他把要做的工作从办公室带回了家。
• They had pretty hard work getting the roof of the storehouse repaired before the rain came.他们费了很大劲在下雨前将仓房顶修好。
• I have a lot of work to do.我有许多工作要做。
• This Association does social work.这个协会从事社会工作。
• 3.toil一般表示繁重的长时间劳动,带有令人感到非常疲乏的意味。例如:
• After much toil the furniture was all in the moving van.经过一番劳累,家具都被搬进了搬运车。
• They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.他们为这个水利工程辛辛苦苦地干了几个月。
• The wealth of industrial society could only come from the toil of the masses.工业社会的财富来自群众的辛勤劳动。

n. (名词)

toil, labour, work

• 这组词的共同意思是“劳动”“工作”。其区别在于：
• 1.labour通常指需要花很大力气并使人疲乏的体力劳动,也可指脑力劳动,但仅限于具体特殊困难的事情。
• 2.work含义很广,指任何有目的性的劳动,不论劳动的难易、轻重、时间的长短,是体力劳动还是脑力劳动,也可用来指机器等的操作。例如:
• He brought work home from the office.他把要做的工作从办公室带回了家。
• They had pretty hard work getting the roof of the storehouse repaired before the rain came.他们费了很大劲在下雨前将仓房顶修好。
• I have a lot of work to do.我有许多工作要做。
• This Association does social work.这个协会从事社会工作。
• 3.toil一般表示繁重的长时间劳动,带有令人感到非常疲乏的意味。例如:
• After much toil the furniture was all in the moving van.经过一番劳累,家具都被搬进了搬运车。
• They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.他们为这个水利工程辛辛苦苦地干了几个月。
• The wealth of industrial society could only come from the toil of the masses.工业社会的财富来自群众的辛勤劳动。

近反义词

【近义词】

• labor 工人
• labour 劳动
• moil 辛劳工作
• travail 分娩的痛苦
• fag (尤英）苦工...
• drudge 劳碌的人
• dig 挖
• grind 磨
• work 工作

【反义词】

• rest 剩余的部分

派生词

n.(名词)

• toiler n. 辛勤工作的人‖toilful adj. 辛苦的‖toilless adj. 不费力的，容易的