| 单词 | to lose one's labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's labour P1. to lose one's labour: to work on something without benefit or result; to waste one's effort. Now rare. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. Prol. l. 181 [They] helden hem vnhardy and here conseille feble, And leten here laboure lost & alle here longe studye. a1500 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Lansd.) l. 309 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 481 I lost my labour, To teche the sich proverbis of substaunce... Rewde is thi remembraunce. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. iii. f. xv If eythers worke be with fyre destroyed, the workeman shall lose his labour. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 100 All well affected Christians would be loth to lose their labour and sweat, till they haue enjoyed the promise. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 95 [To bait for trout] I commend the Canker..or, if with a depinged Locust, you will not lose your Labour. 1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. I. ii. 385 If a person has a mind to distill Honey, for instance, or Wax, for any valuable purpose, he will lose his labour. 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 101 Uncheated he his stalls may spread, nor lose his time and labour. 1866 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. May 547 In looking for traces of Normanism in our national genius..we do but lose our labour. 1908 A. H. Harrison In Search of Polar Continent xiii. 203 I had lost my labour and my patience. < as lemmas |
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