Laborious

(a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.

(a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.

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• It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• O the days that he had seen her careful and laborious for him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• A virtuous and laborious people may be cheaply governed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Adrian had been occupied in fulfilling a laborious and painful task. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We must have been something else, said Celia, objecting to so laborious a flight of imagination. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had no wish to expose to ridicule the representative of so many hours of laborious thought. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We should not despise plain features, nor a laborious yet honest occupation, should we? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She released her strong will from its laborious task. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Hard as she had tried in her laborious life to attain many ends, she had never tried harder than she did now, to be varnished by Mrs General. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Prior to 1861 shoemaking was confined to the slow, laborious hand methods of the shoemaker. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I had worked two chairs with my knife, the sorrel nag helping me in the grosser and more laborious part. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• To break the pigs from the sow, and handle the iron in transportation, was a very laborious and expensive work. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Before his invention, figured patterns of cloth could only be made by slow and laborious processes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I say,' repeated Fledgeby, with laborious explanatory politeness, 'I beg your pardon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Why, what a laborious life! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is laborious, is it not? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Here again the laborious hoe has been succeeded by the labour-saving machine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A laborious walk in the flaming sun brought us to the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She had a laborious piece of work, here, but it was richly rewarded. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He was continually going backwards and forwards, on laborious tiptoe, to see if his wife was still asleep. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• When she had entered two or three laborious items in the account-book, Jip would walk over the page, wagging his tail, and smear them all out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Then one can read two or three books in a day, whereas if each word at a time only is sensed, reading is laborious. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His anxious and laborious efforts were likely, at last, to be crowned with the happiest success. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Before him stretched the long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was after twelve o'clock when this laborious vehicle dropped him at old Catherine's. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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