toil的意思|toil的解释-里氏词典

Toil \Toil\, n. [F. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth,
canvas, spider web, fr. L. tela any woven stuff, a web, fr.
texere to weave. See {Text}, and cf. {Toilet}.]
A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking
prey; -- usually in the plural.

As a Numidian lion, when first caught,
Endures the toil that holds him. --Denham.

Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
--Dryden.

Toil \Toil\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toiled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toiling}.] [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain
origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF.
tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. {Towel}); or perhaps
ultimately from the same root as E. tug.]
To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind,
especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or
duration; to labor; to work.

Toil \Toil\, v. t.
1. To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] ``Toiled with works of
war.'' --Shak.

2. To labor; to work; -- often with out. [R.]

Places well toiled and husbanded. --Holland.

[I] toiled out my uncouth passage. --Milton.

Toil \Toil\, n. [OE. toil turmoil, struggle; cf. OD. tuyl labor,
work. See {Toil}, v.]
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or
mind, esp. the body.

My task of servile toil. --Milton.

After such bloody toil, we bid good night. --Shak.

Note: Toil is used in the formation of compounds which are
generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung,
toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like.

Syn: Labor; drudgery; work; exertion; occupation; employment;
task; travail.

Usage: {Toil}, {Labor}, {Drudgery}. Labor implies strenuous
exertion, but not necessary such as overtasks the
faculties; toil denotes a severity of labor which is
painful and exhausting; drudgery implies mean and
degrading work, or, at least, work which wearies or
disgusts from its minuteness or dull uniformity.

You do not know the heavy grievances,
The toils, the labors, weary drudgeries,
Which they impose. --Southern.

How often have I blessed the coming day,
When toil remitting lent its turn to play.
--Goldsmith.

Most of Guayabal's 12,000 inhabitants toil in the coffee fields for a few dollars a month, nine months a year.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Women till the poor land, toil in sweatshops and perform the other drudgery that moves Haiti's meager economy, but the choice of a woman as president in March was their first real taste of power.
The holiday was established 95 years ago as a national event honoring working people _ a special moment of respite from toil.
It may also not ease French interest rates that much, while exacerbating political tensions within the EC. The causes of the current discontents are not just that the EC offers toil, tears and sweat, but that it offers unnecessary toil, tears and sweat.
It may also not ease French interest rates that much, while exacerbating political tensions within the EC. The causes of the current discontents are not just that the EC offers toil, tears and sweat, but that it offers unnecessary toil, tears and sweat.
But first it offers blood, sweat, toil and tears.
But keeping a garden fertile by mulching with leaves, grass clippings and other composting material eliminates much toil involving heavy equipment.
His supporters are a cross-section of whites who speak English or Afrikaans, although most are Afrikaners who toil on farms and in factories.
For Samuel Palmer and Edward Calvert, whose wood-engravings perhaps sit slightly oddly in the show, the landscape was the work of a divine intelligence. Harvest was not only picturesque but a potent symbol of God's mercy and man's virtuous toil.
Many miners in this town at the center of the latest wave of Polish strikes must toil seven days a week to supplement their wages and gain access to special stores that are open only to miners who agree to work weekends.
So are perhaps 100,000 others, who toil in Japan's small factories, restaurants, bars and construction sites.
From another perspective, the "average" worker will have to toil two hours and 43 minutes each eight-hour day to satisfy the tax collectors, one minute more than last year.
The whole appearance of the land betokens unceasing toil and husbandry.
Wreckers toil at the Homestead Works now, like scavengers picking innards of a carcass.
Our basic law is `do as you will, but harm none."' It's not all toil and trouble, however.
EDITOR'S NOTE _ Thousands of Haitians toil in the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic under conditions compared to slavery by some human rights activists.
He had just celebrated his birthday and sloughed off, after five years' toil, the 'nightmare' burden of the chairmanship of his department.
Her 11 years of entrepreneurial toil will pay off in a big way in January, she says.
It's "work" if farm workers toil for the lowest legally allowable pay, for long hours; it's "gardening" if you go out and do it after a long day trading bonds.
At which a large part of the mob broke into spontaneous applause. The reason he gave, which also drew approval, was that the toil of writing long-hand concentrates the mind on producing succinct and disciplined results.
On Mr. Salinas's recent five-day trip to the northern border state of Chihuahua, even the humblest citizens toil to gain favor with their future leader.

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