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toil/tɔil/ v. & n.●v. intr. 1 work laboriously or incessantly 苦干,辛勤劳作 2 make slow painful progress 艰苦地行动;艰难地行走 toiled along the path 沿着小路艰难地行走 ●n. prolonged or intensive labour; drudgery 辛苦,劳累;苦活,难事 □ toiler n.[Middle English via Anglo-French toiler (v.), toil (n.) ‘dispute’, Old French tooilier, tooil from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for bruising olives’, related to tundere ‘beat’] |