toil
v
(fml or rhet 文或修辞)
1 [I, Ipr, Ip, It]
~ away (at/over sth) work long or hard 长时间或辛苦工作
students toiling over their homework 辛辛苦苦做功课的学生
We toiled away all afternoon to get the house ready for our guests. 我们忙了一下午收拾房子准备迎接宾客.
2 [Ipr, Ip] move slowly and with difficulty in the specified direction 缓慢而艰难地向某方向移动
The bus toiled up the steep hill. 公共汽车艰难地爬上陡峭的山岗.
The ground was muddy and uneven, but we toiled on. 地面泥泞不平, 我们仍吃力地向前走. toil, n [U]
(fml or rhet 文或修辞) hard or lengthy work 辛苦的或长时间的工作
after years of toil 辛苦地工作了多年之後. =>Usage at work1 用法见 work1.
Yes, I see. How can they get rid of waste water in this way? What a terrible colour the sea is now! It looks as if our class won't be able to bathe at all.
是的,我看见了。他们怎么能这样排放废水呢?海水的颜色多么可怕呀!看来我们班同学根本不能在这里游泳。
Sending a fax is more expensive than posting a letter, but much quicker.
发传真比寄信要贵些,但是要快得多。
Next Von Frisch thought that bees needed to know more than just the distance to a faraway place.