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单词 for one's pains
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for one's pains
c. for one's pains: in return for one's (esp. futile) labour or trouble.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > as reward or in recompense [phrase]
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to meeding?a1300
in revenge for (also of)1553
for one's painsa1563
a1563 J. Bale Brefe Comedy Iohan Baptystes in Harleian Misc. (1744) I. 106 For your peynes ye haue appoynted by the emproure Your stypende wages.
1599 G. Chapman Humerous Dayes Myrth sig. C4 Now she stops..and rates him for his paines.
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 599 The uther half to the wardane for his panis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iv. 100 Giue my sweet Nan this Ring: there's for thy paines . View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 183 You..are like to have nothing but your travel for your paines . View more context for this quotation
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 20 July 2/1 When I talk of practising to fly, silly People think me an Owl for my Pains.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxi. 148 If you hadn't come, you might have stayed..and have been a beggar for your pains.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 21 I got only my labor for my pains.
1889 J. Corbett Monk xi. 154 The old general, in a fit of exasperation, publicly gave him a sound thrashing for his pains.
1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xi. 145 They had worked hard for many minutes, and were a few feet higher for their pains.
1997 J. Seabrook Deeper viii. 267 He was gone for two years and returned with no money, nothing to show for his pains but a wonderful set of chess pieces he had whittled himself during his two years in the wilderness.
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