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 painstaking ['peinzteikiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 辛苦, 苦心, 工夫

a. 辛苦的, 勤勉的, 小心的




    painstaking
    [ adj ]
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
    <adj.all>
    conscientious application to the work at handpainstaking research
    scrupulous attention to details


    Painstaking \Pains"tak`ing\ (p[=a]nz"t[=a]k`[i^]ng), a.
    Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
    ``Painstaking men.'' --Harris.


    Painstaking \Pains"tak`ing\, n.
    The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in
    performance. --Beau. & Fl.

    1. Ms. True said a painstaking study of the marble head by scientists and art experts had answered many of the questions surrounding the head of Achilles, a mythological hero slain by an arrow to his heel.
    2. The bottom line is that a North American turnaround for GM may require the same sort of lengthy, painstaking effort that it took to improve overseas.
    3. Its craftsmen removed the remains of the 15ft by 30ft windows to the company's workshop for the painstaking task of reconstruction. Because few photographs of the windows existed, the blast area had to be carefully swept for traces of glass fragments.
    4. The painstaking work is in measuring out the distances between the various components of the trap, and then in camouflaging it properly.
    5. Sensing that support could only wane with time, House leaders planned to bring the measure to the floor as soon as it was drafted into legislative language - a painstaking process not expected to be over until well after midnight.
    6. None of the bodies was ever found, forcing prosecutors to put together a painstaking case of circumstantial evidence.
    7. Some party members point out that Uno lacks experience in dealing with party affairs, which is viewed as indispensable to carry out painstaking reforms needed to salvage the party's plunging popularity.
    8. The painstaking bird cleanup may not be finished until the end of this month, and officials said they'll consider themselves lucky if half the cleaned birds survive.
    9. Upgraded models received equal international protection. But this painstaking and expensive protection of the technology could have been in vain but for a lucky break.
    10. The most painstaking work is being done by Adel Jabari, 38, who said it took two months to place the 20,000 pieces of glass and stone in each square meter (10.76 square feet) of mosaic.
    11. The efforts of the Caucus have been tempered during the 1980s by the Reagan presidency, which forced us to defend long-settled civil-rights gains and threatened to undo two decades of slow, painstaking advancement.
    12. Ben Lorigo of the Department of Transportation inspector general's office in Washington said the crackdown came after painstaking computer checks of 711,000 pilots around the country.
    13. A few years ago, there was jubilation at the State Department when, after a painstaking search, a Chinese language specialist was found for a long-standing vacancy.
    14. Federal prosecutors began the painstaking task of trying to recreate allegedly illegal commodities trades to convince a jury that three traders on trial for fraud are guilty.
    15. The breast of chicken was cooked to perfection and the trappings in the State Department's elegant eighth-floor dining room reflected painstaking effort.
    16. There's no substitute for the painstaking work by our negotiating experts in Geneva.
    17. To show their knowledge during interviews, job seekers must first do painstaking homework on a company's strategy and corporate culture.
    18. The work on Angkor Wat's nearly 1,440 square yards of friezes is painstaking.
    19. The rehabilitation of injured manatees is a painstaking process that takes months.
    20. No other recent musical has had such a painstaking and lengthy period of auditions, reconstruction of lost dance numbers and rehearsal.
    21. Mr. Boock described the painstaking process of picking an RAF underground member from left-wing political groups, which are formed around protests about prison conditions for arrested terrorists.
    22. The Justice Department said it won a court order freezing 684 U.S. bank accounts as a result of a painstaking investigation of financial transactions used by Colombian drug lords to hide at least $1.2 billion.
    23. In past Olympics, marketers like Coca-Cola had to secure such rights on a painstaking country-by-country basis.
    24. But the replacement engine, designed to haul freight trains, was far slower, and progress was painstaking.
    25. No serious observer expects him to be able to deliver these without severely damaging Italy's painstaking efforts to reduce its budget deficit and bring its spiralling government debt under control.
    26. Without such painstaking negotiation, he said, Iraq can't be sure Iran is sincere.
    27. This painstaking way of building airplanes isn't very typical for the Pentagon.
    28. The painstaking task of drawing, photographing, conserving and cataloging each piece is being carried out in full public view as a working exhibition, which includes a video tape of the salvage.
    29. As workers continue the painstaking effort to chip away freeway concrete from crushed motorists, psychologists and counselors have launched their own round-the-clock effort to help rescuers cope.
    30. For heaven's sake, has anyone seen a refrigerator light that wasn't bare? Only once does this painstaking approach pay off - and that, ironically, is during the three chapters which deal with Seward Johnson's death.
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