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单词 to take pains
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to take pains
(a) Trouble taken in accomplishing or attempting something; labour, toil, exertions; careful and attentive effort. Frequently in phrases, as to be at pains, to go to pains, to take pains (now often with great or a similar intensifier).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > trouble taken to accomplish anything
whilec1175
painc1330
pine?c1335
teenc1380
adoc1400
labourc1405
painsc1480
trouble1577
fatigue1669
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > care or pains
teenc1380
painsc1480
cark1482
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)]
tillc897
stightlea1375
stretcha1375
wrestlea1382
to put it forthc1390
to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398
paina1400
takea1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
to make great force?c1450
makec1485
to stir one's stumpsa1500
to bestir one's stumps1549
to make work1574
put1596
bestira1616
operate1650
to lay out1659
to be at pains1709
exerta1749
tew1787
maul1821
to take (the) trouble1830
to pull outc1835
bother1840
trouble1880
to buck up1890
hump1897
to go somea1911
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > care or heed [verb (intransitive)] > bestow care and effort
to do one's (busy) curea1400
paina1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
take1528
to be at pains1709
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 437 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 76 I haf ȝarninge with paynis quhill I þe kene, how þe tynt sawlis of almen [etc.].
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 746 (MED) Moche trowble & peynes ye may reche.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 38 Apply themselfys to theyr laburys & paynys for the susteynyng of the hole body.
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2v They haue nought but..their paines for their sweate, and..their labour for their trauaile.
1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron iv. sig. G What idle paines have you bestowd to see A poore ould woman?
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 437 Wh[itelocke] was able to give them satisfaction having taken pains to inform himself therin.
1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 4 The University was at the pains of Publishing a Latin Paper to justify themselves.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 176 A person born deaf, may, by time, and sufficient pains, be taught..to speak, and, by the motions of the lips, to understand what is said to him.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xiii. 35 Yet much he praised the pains he took, And well those pains did pay.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 426 He..spared no pains on his daughter's education.
1925 A. Loos in Harper's Bazar Mar. 132/2 I am taking special pains with my diary from now on as I am really writing for Gerry.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 May 54/3 He picks a few campaign themes and goes to great pains to keep his candidates on message.
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