toilsome
toilsome — 形容詞
- toilsomepositive
- more toilsomecomparative
- most toilsomesuperlative
1. needing a lot of effort and leaving you very tired, especially from heavy physic
辛苦的；費力
需要花很多力氣、令人疲累的
needing a lot of effort and leaving you very tired, especially from heavy physical work
Digging the new garden bed by hand was toilsome work for Ziad.
徒手挖新的花圃，對 Ziad 來說是件辛苦的差事。
predicative: be toilsome, describing a tiring task
Anong found the long climb up the muddy hill toilsome.
Anong 覺得爬上泥濘山坡的那段長路十分費力。
find + object + toilsome: judging a task as exhausting
Carrying water from the river every morning was a toilsome job for the whole family.
每天早上從河邊提水，對全家人來說是份辛苦的工作。
Noa spent a toilsome afternoon moving heavy boxes up three flights of stairs.
Noa 花了一個下午把沉重的箱子搬上三層樓，辛苦極了。
collocation: toilsome afternoon / toilsome job / toilsome work
The toilsome task of sorting ten thousand letters by hand took Kenji all week.
Kenji 花了一整週，用手工分類一萬封信，這項工作十分辛苦。