单词 | hard worker |
释义 | > as lemmashard worker b. With modifying adjective: a person who does work or another activity with the specified level of effort, application, speed, etc. Frequently in hard worker (cf. hard adj. 21b). Π 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. 255 Hard workers therefore have little time..to turne Dancers. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 357 Lazy people, and no good workers. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 5 A good Grieve is better than an ill Worker. 1792 R. Heron tr. J.-F. Marmontel in tr. New Coll. Moral Tales III. 41 I know very well that you are a hard worker, and very useful to your father. 1877 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate Jrnl. 25 Jan. 173/2 Cowles not only has the knack of getting work out of his men, but is a very hard worker himself, though not a pretty oar. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 207 The full happiness of that time to me cannot be explained except to consistently hard workers. 1927 Musical Q. 13 297 The legend that Beethoven was a very slow worker. 1986 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 12 Aug. b11 In compulsory labor education schools,..lazy workers are taught the value of honest toil. 2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xxiii. 196 She was very bright,..and a hard worker, and she turned in her papers on time. < as lemmas |
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