toilsome

英 ['tɔɪlsəm] 美 ['tɔɪlsəm]

• adj. 费力的；辛苦的；劳苦的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
   "a grueling campaign"
   "hard labor"
   "heavy work"
   "heavy going"
   "spent many laborious hours on the project"
   "set a punishing pace"
   

经典引文

• Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious.

  出自： R. L. Stevenson

• Cooley..by means of a toilsome youth..had amassed a large amount of money.

  出自： P. G. Wodehouse

近反义词

【近义词】

• tiresome 令人厌倦的
• painful 痛苦的
• exacting 严格的
• exhausting 疲倦的
• punishing 艰难持久的
• operose 费力的
• grueling 折磨人的
• arduous 费力的
• heavy 大(量)的
• laborious 艰苦的
• backbreaking 非常辛苦的
• gruelling 繁重而累人的...
• hard 硬的