toiling

英 [ˈtɔɪlɪŋ]

美 [ˈtɔɪlɪŋ]

v.  (长时间)苦干，辛勤劳作; 艰难缓慢地移动; 跋涉
toil的现在分词

现在分词：toiling　复数：toilings　

BNC.34601 / COCA.27836

柯林斯词典

• VERB 苦干;辛勤劳动
  When peopletoil, they work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks.
  1. People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life...
     在昏暗潮湿的工厂辛苦劳作的人们累得无力再去享受家庭生活。
  2. Workers toiled long hours.
     工人们长时间辛苦劳动。
  3. Toil awaymeans the same astoil.
     toil away 同 toil
  4. She has toiled away at the violin for years...
     她多年来苦练小提琴。
  5. Nora toils away serving burgers at the local cafe.
     诺拉在当地小餐馆干着一份为客人端送汉堡包的辛苦活儿。
• VERB (通常指因疲倦而)费劲地行走，艰难地行动
  If youtoilsomewhere, you move there slowly and with difficulty, usually because you are very tired.
  1. Arnold had his head down, gasping as he toiled up the hill.
     阿诺德垂着头，一边费劲地往山上爬一边气喘吁吁。
• 苦工;苦活
  Toilis unpleasant work that is very tiring physically.

英英释义

adj

• doing arduous or unpleasant work
  1. drudging peasants
  2. the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
  3. toiling coal miners in the black deeps
  Synonym:drudginglaboringlabouring

双语例句

• For the toiling massesthese higher food prices are very bad news.
  对劳苦大众来说，这些较高的食物价格是非常糟糕的消息。
• Were toiling upward in the night.
  他们彻夜劳作到黎明。
• I have another explanation: insecurity, born of the worry that, if you stop toiling, someone or something will come along and rob you of what you have achieved.
  而我却有另外一种解释：不安全感，它源自于一种担忧：即如果你停止辛勤工作，一些人或一些事会随之而来，并夺走你所获得的东西。
• She felt like a beetle toiling in the dust. She was filled with repulsion.
  她觉得自己像只甲虫在地里挣扎，心中涌满愤恨。
• Will universities provide more support to researchers working in profitable fields than to scholars toiling in more musty areas?
  大学会为从事可赢利领域的研究者提供比从事冷门研究者更多支持吗？
• Many Capricorns fear that poverty will set in the moment they stop toiling.
  很多摩羯人害怕一旦停止工作就会遭遇贫困。
• He was determined to use music to tell the hard life of toiling masses.
  他决心用音乐来诉说劳苦大众的生活的艰辛。
• Zi Gong saw a farmer toiling in a vegetable garden nearby road.
  子贡注意到，一位农人在道旁菜园子里辛苦地工作。
• They are toiling away, but yet they are happy enough to be singing a song?
  他们在辛苦工作，却能开心地唱歌？
• All these eight years I've been toiling like a galley slave, with every ounce of my strength.
  在这八年中，我如一名苦工般辛苦工作，竭尽全力。