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Definition of moil in English: moilverb mɔɪlmɔɪl [no object]North American dialect, archaic 1Work hard. 辛勤地工作 辛劳淘金的人。 Example sentencesExamples - But in much of the rest of the world, the willful individual, moiling away against the system, may attain nobility in some moral order but is nonetheless fated to be crushed.
- For five rainy days he tramped ever-widening circles out from the base, traversing ridges and saddles and moiling through valleys while the armed guard followed him every step of the way.
- I rose early and sat late, I toiled and moiled, and in the sweat of my brow and of my soul I strove to gain this money, that I might have some honour among my fellow-creatures.
- He truly toiled and moiled just to accept God's will when he prayed at Gethsemane.
Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away 2Move around in confusion or agitation. 慌乱中走动；烦躁不安地走动 a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze 一群男女在烟雾中慌乱地走动。 Example sentencesExamples - The maggots moiled about its flesh, pixellating and transforming its appearance.
- Suddenly I noticed something happening in his face, beginning to moil and move.
noun mɔɪlmɔɪl mass nounNorth American dialect, archaic 1Hard work; drudgery. 苦工；苦活 this night his weekly moil is at an end Example sentencesExamples - At one level he was the small-time farmer from Ayrshire who described his early life as having ‘the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley slave’.
- Shao's toil and moil was rather rewarding, and five years after his arrival, in 1852, he successfully launched his shop with a food-processing workshop at another location.
- So these are matters in the moils and toils of government and likely to remain so, I suspect, for some time.
Synonyms hard work, toiling, labour, slaving, struggle, effort, exertion, application, industry, grind, slog, blood, sweat, and tears, drudgery 2Turmoil; confusion. 喧闹；骚动；混乱 the moil of his intimate thoughts 他内心思绪的一片混乱。 Synonyms confusion, upheaval, upheavals, turbulence, tumult, disorder, commotion, disturbance, agitation, ferment, unrest, trouble, disruption, upset, convulsions, chaos, mayhem, pandemonium, bedlam, uproar
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'moisten or bedaub'): from Old French moillier 'paddle in mud, moisten', based on Latin mollis 'soft'. The sense 'work' dates from the mid 16th century, often in the phrase toil and moil. Rhymesboil, Boyle, broil, coil, Dáil, Doyle, embroil, Fianna Fáil, foil, Hoyle, noil, oil, roil, Royle, soil, spoil, toil, voile Definition of moil in US English: moilverbmɔɪlmoil [no object]North American dialect, archaic 1Work hard. 辛勤地工作 辛劳淘金的人。 Example sentencesExamples - I rose early and sat late, I toiled and moiled, and in the sweat of my brow and of my soul I strove to gain this money, that I might have some honour among my fellow-creatures.
- For five rainy days he tramped ever-widening circles out from the base, traversing ridges and saddles and moiling through valleys while the armed guard followed him every step of the way.
- He truly toiled and moiled just to accept God's will when he prayed at Gethsemane.
- But in much of the rest of the world, the willful individual, moiling away against the system, may attain nobility in some moral order but is nonetheless fated to be crushed.
Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away - 1.1with adverbial Move around in confusion or agitation.
慌乱中走动；烦躁不安地走动 a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze 一群男女在烟雾中慌乱地走动。 Example sentencesExamples - Suddenly I noticed something happening in his face, beginning to moil and move.
- The maggots moiled about its flesh, pixellating and transforming its appearance.
nounmɔɪlmoil North American dialect, archaic 1Hard work; drudgery. 苦工；苦活 Example sentencesExamples - So these are matters in the moils and toils of government and likely to remain so, I suspect, for some time.
- Shao's toil and moil was rather rewarding, and five years after his arrival, in 1852, he successfully launched his shop with a food-processing workshop at another location.
- At one level he was the small-time farmer from Ayrshire who described his early life as having ‘the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley slave’.
Synonyms hard work, toiling, labour, slaving, struggle, effort, exertion, application, industry, grind, slog, blood, sweat, and tears, drudgery - 1.1 Turmoil; confusion.
喧闹；骚动；混乱 the moil of his intimate thoughts 他内心思绪的一片混乱。 Synonyms confusion, upheaval, upheavals, turbulence, tumult, disorder, commotion, disturbance, agitation, ferment, unrest, trouble, disruption, upset, convulsions, chaos, mayhem, pandemonium, bedlam, uproar
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten’, based on Latin mollis ‘soft’. The sense ‘work’ dates from the mid 16th century, often in the phrase toil and moil. |