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Laborious Work Task Requires Lot Labor Describe Ly

英语单词 laborious
英美音标 英 [lə'bɔːriəs] 美 [lə'bɔːriəs]
中文释义 adj.艰苦的;费劲的
英语例句 (1) Her work is a laborious task.
(2) He has a laborious style of writing.
(3) Checking all the names was a slow, laborious job.
中文例句 (1) 她的工作很艰苦。
(2) 他的文笔不流畅。
(3) 核对全部名字是件既慢又费劲的事。
vocabulary简明 Laborious describes something that requires a lot of hard work, such as Victor Frankenstein’s laborious undertaking of digging graves to find monster parts.
vocabulary扩展 Laborious comes from the familiar word for work, labor, which doesn’t veer far from its roots in Old French meaning "exertion of the body," and from Latin “toil, pain, exertion, fatigue.” Anything that requires blood, sweat, and tears is laborious, and while it’s usually a good thing to work hard, laborious can also describe something over-thought, such as the heavy-handed plot of a bad TV show. Think labor plus boring, said like an old-fashioned English aristocrat: luh-bohr-ee-uhs.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]耗时费力的;辛苦的;艰难的 If you describe a task or job as laborious, you mean that it takes a lot of time and effort.
  • Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.

    一年到头把花园拾掇得干净整洁也不是件轻松活儿。

laboriously
  • He sat behind a desk laboriously writing with an Army issue pen.

    他坐在书桌后吃力地写着,用的是一支部队发的钢笔。

  • ...the embroidery she'd worked on so laboriously during the long winter nights.

    她在一个个漫长冬夜煞费心血绣制的刺绣

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