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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- toil
[tɔɪl]
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1.
vi.
苦干，辛苦地工作
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2.
vi.
艰难地行进
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3.
n.[u]
生产工作
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4.
n.[u]
艰苦或费力的工作
Collins English-English Dictionary
- toil
[tɔɪl]
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1.
n
hard or exhausting work
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2.
n
an obsolete word for strife
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3.
vi.
[intr]
to labour
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4.
vi.
[intr]
to progress with slow painful movements
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to toil up a hill
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5.
vt.
[tr]
[Archaic]
to achieve by toil
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6.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Anglo-French toiler to struggle, from Old French toeillier to confuse, from Latin tudiculare to stir, from tudicula machine for bruising olives, from tudes a hammer, from tundere to beat
- toil
[tɔɪl]
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1.
n
[often plural]
a net or snare
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the toils of fortune had ensnared him
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2.
n
[Archaic]
a trap for wild beasts
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3.
n
[Etymology]
C16: from Old French toile, from Latin tela loom
Examples
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The industrial harvest compensates for the hard toil of the peasants for the year.
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大丰收补偿了农民一年来的辛勤劳动。
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a break from one's toil
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每一粒粮食都来之不易。
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Every single grain is the result of toil.
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终年劳累，不得温饱
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toil all the year round without enough to eat and wear
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日夜辛劳
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toil day and night
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血汗钱
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money earned by hard toil
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地主把长工当牛马一样役使。
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The landlord made the farmhands toil like beasts of burden.
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劳动致富
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become rich through sweat and toil
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