"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
1.苦干;辛勤劳动
When peopletoil, they work very hard doing unpleasant or tiring tasks.
e.g. 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。
e.g. Workers toiled long hours.
工人们长时间辛苦劳动。
2.(通常指因疲倦而)费劲地行走，艰难地行动
If youtoil somewhere, you move there slowly and with difficulty, usually because you are very tired.
e.g. 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。
3.苦工;苦活
toil is unpleasant work that is very tiring physically.
1. 工作：不过,合理而言,人类完整的生活内容应该包含六个部份:睡眠(包含吃喝洗刷等生物学上的需要)、工作(toil)、运动(playing)、游玩(leisuring)、休息(idling)、灵修(soul resting).
2. toil是什么意思
2. 艰苦的工作：blood 血 |toil 艰苦的工作 | sweat 汗水
3. toil
3. 辛苦：toil on 艰苦工作 |toil 辛苦 |toile 薄麻布
我们因那件辛苦的工作而感到十分疲惫。
Every grain of it comes from hard toil.粒粒皆辛苦。
Thus his youth had been spent in rude and ill-paid toil.他的青年时期便是那样在干着报酬微薄的辛苦工作中消磨过去的。
He was destined to plod the path of toil.他注定要在艰辛的道路上跋涉。
She was caught in the toils of despair.她陷于绝境。
The thief was caught in the toils of the law.窃贼落入了法网。
I shall have to toil and moil all my days.我必须一年到头拼命地干。
We toil away all afternoon to get the house ready for our guest.我们忙了一下午收拾房子准备迎接宾客。
The slaves toiled up the hill pulling the heavy blocks.那些奴隶艰难地把沉重的石块拖上山。
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。
a life of hardship and toil艰难劳苦的一生
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。
Workers toiled long hours.工人们长时间辛苦劳动。
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。
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.
We plodded along the path of toil.我们沿著艰辛的小道慢慢前进.
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.
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.
The book is a toil to read.这本书读起来真费劲.
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.
Pleasure comes through toil.先苦后甜.
Trouble springs from Idleness; toil from Ease.麻烦来自闲散, 辛劳源于安适.
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.
Bosses toil till 3:30 p.m. everyday.做老板真辛苦,每天赶三点半.
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.
I was tired with hours of toil.我因数小时的劳动而疲乏.
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.
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.
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.
Honor lies in honest toil.光荣在于诚恳地劳动.
He's overspent with toil.他劳累过度了.
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.
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.
The joy overpays the toil.所得的快乐超过付出的辛劳.
The wealth comes from the toil of the masses.财富来自大众的辛勤劳动.
After them come those who have to toil painfully in order to acquire learning.困而学之,又其次也.
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!
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 ?
Weapons, made For the hard toils of war.
出自：LongfellowAs she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
出自：Anthony Cleopatra,ShakespeareSoldiers in the toils of civilian law for thefts.
出自：E. BirneyServants..toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes.
出自：Scott FitzgeraldHe toiled at his treatise on volcanoes.
出自：A. N. Wilson
