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laboriously

/luh-bawr-ee-uhs, -bohr-/US // ləˈbɔr i əs, -ˈboʊr- //UK // (ləˈbɔːrɪəs) //

费力地,辛苦地,费劲地,辛苦

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
    • : characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail: laborious research.
    • : characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort, dullness, and lack of spontaneity; labored: a strained, laborious plot.
    • : given to or diligent in work: a careful, laborious craftsman.

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Examples

  • Clumsy and laborious on land, crabeater seals are elegant and agile swimmers that spend their entire lives in the pack ice zone surrounding the frozen continent.

  • The president’s onslaught only escalated once the polls had closed and the laborious vote count ticked on.

  • Assembling tent poles with cold hands can be laborious, snow-covered trails can reduce travel speed, and finding water can be tricky when streams are frozen.

  • It is a laborious process, hence why devotees happily line up for chefs they believe can work magic in the meat, like Cristina Martinez of Philadelphia’s South Philly Barbacoa.

  • The partnership with Nvidia, he said, required the companies to work together to make sure their respective technologies are compatible, a laborious task.

  • Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

  • He would laboriously make his way from desk to loo, belt down a few, then return.

  • An “overproduced, overblown, confusingly dark and laboriously ambitious jumble,” ruled Newsday.

  • He came up laboriously—the more laboriously by virtue of his very efforts to show himself still nimble in his mistress's eyes.

  • He came back warily, forgetting his English accent, which he had laboriously imitated in admiration of a certain vaudeville hero.

  • I had always been accustomed to pause and very laboriously to kill every fish as I took it.

  • Laboriously enough, we pushed on for three days travel, a daily ascent and descent of 3000 feet marking our progress.

  • But nothing more was visible, and he turned back to the trail to see Uncle Billy laboriously climbing up the slope.