英语
其他形式
- toylesome (弃用)
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形容词
toilsome(比较级 more toilsome,最高级 most toilsome)
- 劳累的,费事的
- 1596,埃德蒙·斯宾塞, 仙后(The Faerie Qveene. […]), OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 10:
- ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
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- 1940 July,“Notes and News: Timetables in South Africa”,出自 Railway Magazine, 页号422:
- The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing.
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衍生词汇
- toilsomely
- toilsomeness
- untoilsome