英汉词典

toil 基本解释

• n. 辛苦；苦工；网；圈套
• vi. 辛苦工作；艰难地行进
• vt. 费力地做；使…过度劳累

toil 词态变化

toil 中文词源

来自中古法语 toile,网，罗网，来自拉丁语 tela,网，来自 PIE*teks, 编织，纺织，词源同 texture,textile.拼写比较 regulate,rule.引申词义圈套。

toil 英文词源

toil

toil: English has two words toil, one of them now used only in the plural. Toil ‘work’ comes via Anglo-Norman toiler ‘stir, agitate, wrangle’ from Latin tudiculāre ‘stir around’. This was derived from tudicula ‘mill for crushing olives’, a diminutive form of tudes ‘hammer’, which went back to the prehistoric base *tud- ‘hit’, source also of Latin tundere ‘beat, crush’, which gave English abstruse, protrude, etc. Toils ‘entanglements’ represents a plural use of the now archaic toil ‘net’ [16].

This denoted etymologically ‘something woven’: it came via Old French toile from Latin tēla, a contraction of an earlier *texlā, which was derived from the base *tex- ‘weave’ (source of English text, textile, etc). Toilet [16] was borrowed from French toilette, a diminutive form of toile. It originally meant ‘cloth cover’, but it gradually evolved via ‘cloth cover for a dressing table’ to ‘the act of dressing and grooming oneself’.

The sense ‘lavatory’ emerged in mid 19th-century America, from the now obsolete ‘dressing room (with lavatory attached)’, inspired no doubt by the same delicacy that produced American English bathroom ‘lavatory’. Another member of the same word-family is tiller [15], which came via Anglo-Norman telier ‘weaver’s beam’ from medieval Latin tēlārium, a derivative of tēla.
=> abstruse, protrude; technical, text, textile, texture, tiller, tissue, toilet

toil (v.)

early 14c., toilen, "pull at, tug," from Anglo-French toiller, Old French toellier "pull or drag about" (see toil (n.1)). Intransitive meaning "struggle, work hard, labor for considerable time" is from late 14c., perhaps by influence of till (v.). Related: Toiled; toiling.

toil (n.1)

"hard work," c. 1300, originally "turmoil, contention, dispute," from Anglo-French toil (13c.), from toiler "agitate, stir up, entangle, writhe about," from Old French toeillier "drag about, make dirty" (12c.), usually said to be from Latin tudiculare "crush with a small hammer," from tudicula "mill for crushing olives, instrument for crushing," from Latin tudes "hammer," from PIE *tud-, variant of *(s)teu- "to push, stroke, knock, beat" (see obtuse). Sense of "hard work, labor" (1590s) is from the related verb (see toil (v.)).

toil (n.2)

"net, snare," 1520s, from Middle French toile "hunting net, cloth, web" (compare toile d'araignée "cobweb"), from Old French toile "cloth" (11c.), from Latin tela "web, net, warp of a fabric," from PIE *teks- "to weave" (see texture (n.)). Now used largely in plural (as in caught in the toils of the law).

toil 英文释义

1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages);

"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

toil 双语例句

1. The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.

财富来自大众的辛勤劳动.

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2. They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.

他们为这项水利工程辛辛苦苦地干了几个月.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. Every single grain is the result of toil.

每一粒粮食都来之不易.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. The book is a toil to read.

这本书读起来真费劲.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. The joy overpays the toil.

所得的快乐超过付出的辛劳.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

toil 实用场景例句

They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun.

他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈。

牛津词典

a life of hardship and toil

艰难劳苦的一生

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Workers toiled long hours.

工人们长时间辛苦劳动。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In his pockets he had $ 130 that he had won hardly by his own toil.

他口袋里有一百三十美元,都是靠自己血汗挣来的.

辞典例句

We plodded along the path of toil.

我们沿著艰辛的小道慢慢前进.

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They often toil long, irregular hours for not much money.

他们常常为了为数不多的工钱卖命的从事没有时间规律的工作.

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Better one handful with tranquillity handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

满了一把、得享安静、强如满了两把、劳碌捕风.

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The book is a toil to read.

这本书读起来真费劲.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

But the Ant on its way and continued its toil.

蚂蚁没有听它的,而是继续辛苦地拖着粮食往回赶.

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Pleasure comes through toil.

先苦后甜.

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Trouble springs from Idleness; Toil from Ease.

麻烦来自闲散, 辛劳源于安适.

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I have pointed to my own manuscript volumes which represent the toil of years.

我给他看了我那些稿本,它们代表了我多年的心血.

辞典例句

Bosses toil till 3:30 p.m. everyday.

做老板真辛苦,每天赶三点半.

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The severest toil was child's play compared with this.

跟这一比,最沉重的苦役也好像小孩子的游戏.

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I was tired with hours of toil.

我因数小时的劳动而疲乏.

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They spent months of toil on the water conservancy project.

他们为这项水利工程辛辛苦苦地干了几个月.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They dance, work, struggle and toil while prominently displaying your tasks.

他们跳舞, 工作, 奋斗,苦干同时明显地显示你的任务.

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Such peasants may retain half the product of their year's toil.

此种农民,每年劳动结果,自己可得一半.

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Honor lies in honest toil.

光荣在于诚恳地劳动.

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He's overspent with toil.

他劳累过度了.

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Up and down they go , endlessly, and endless as their toil rises their rhythmic cry.

他们不停地上上下下, 随着无尽的劳动响起有节奏的喊声:嗨,哟——嗬,嗨.

名作英译部分

The bridge project took four years of toil under brutal conditions.

造桥计划在严酷的环境下,历经四年艰辛的努力才完成.

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The joy overpays the toil.

所得的快乐超过付出的辛劳.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.

财富来自大众的辛勤劳动.

《简明英汉词典》

After them come those who have to toil painfully in order to acquire learning.

困而学之,又其次也.

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From the podium, you cultivate silently. You toil day and night to educate for the country.

三尺讲台默默耕耘日夜辛劳为国育才敬爱的老师您辛苦了节日快乐!

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Did he gain his precarious bread petty trade, by menial toil, by violence, or by theft?

他究竟是在做小生意, 当奴仆, 还是靠打家劫舍来获得朝不保夕的口粮 呢 ?

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