| 释义 |
sweatful, a. Chiefly poet.|ˈswɛtfʊl|
[f. sweat n. + -ful.]
Full of or abounding in sweat; inducing or accompanied by sweat; toilsome, laborious; distressing, oppressive.
1615Sylvester Job Triumph. i. 361 Man, for Sin, must toile him servily, In Sweatfull Labour. 1623B. Hone in Cockeram Eng. Dict. A vij b, If things farre fetch'd are dearest, most esteem'd, which by times sweatful houres haue been redeem'd. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 53 Lift up thy head, O Man,..To sway with sweatful plan The stubborn-breasted earth. 1885Lowe Bismarck xiv. II. 403 The bloated armaments under which all Europe is bending to the earth with sweatful groans. |