| 单词 | toil |
| 释义 | toil toil1 —toiler, n. /toyl/, n. 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Archaic. battle; strife; struggle. v.i. 4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields. 5. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain. v.t. 6. to accomplish or produce by toil. [1250-1300; ME toile (n.), toilen (v.) < AF toil contention, toiler to contend < L tudiculare to stir up, beat, v. deriv. of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equiv. to tudi- (s. of tundere to beat) + -cula -CULE2] Syn. 1. exertion, travail, pains. See work. 4. strive, moil. Ant. 1. indolence, sloth. toil2 /toyl/, n. 1. Usually, toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven. 2. Usually, toils. trap; snare: to be caught in the toils of a gigantic criminal conspiracy. 3. Archaic. any snare or trap for wild beasts. [1520-30; < F toile < L tela web] |
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