单词 | to make labour |
释义 | > as lemmasto make labour to make labour: to exert influence; frequently in to make labour to (a person) (cf. labour v. 5b).extracted from labourlaborn.to make labour (also pain) 50. transitive. To put forth (an effort). Formerly also †to make labour (also pain). Also (occasionally) intransitive with passive meaning.†to make force (at, etc.): see force n.1 22b. to make the running: see running n. Phrases 3. to make shift: see shift n. 6. Cf. also to make haste, speed: see the nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] tillc897 stightlea1375 stretcha1375 wrestlea1382 to put it forthc1390 to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398 paina1400 takea1400 to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430 to make great force?c1450 makec1485 to stir one's stumpsa1500 to bestir one's stumps1549 to make work1574 put1596 bestira1616 operate1650 to lay out1659 to be at pains1709 exerta1749 tew1787 maul1821 to take (the) trouble1830 to pull outc1835 bother1840 trouble1880 to buck up1890 hump1897 to go somea1911 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 35 He maid grete payne to ger that langage of latyne sprede. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiv. 527 Thadmyrall sawe the grete efforte of armes that Reynawde made agenste his folke. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 22 Preamble I pray you make laboure unto my Lady Warwyk to write to the King of Fraunce. 1565 Stow in Three 15th c. Chron. (Camd.) 136 Ye paryshe of S. Marie Magdalyn in Mylke~stret, makynge labour to ye byshope, had by hym a mynister apoyntyd to serve them with communion that day. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 6 Gif mair labour and industrie war maid. 1682 T. Shadwell Medal of John Bayes 121 In Cromwels Court, Where first your Muse did make her great effort. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 113 The panting Courser..Makes many a faint Effort. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 68 I started up..made some efforts to vomit, but evacuated nothing. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vii. i. 141 In this case, the judgment is already persuaded, the affections already gained. Having therefore, no object, what exertion can the mind make? 1807 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. App. 51 The Spaniards were making such great exertions to debauch the minds of our savages. 1833 J. J. Strang Diary 9 Feb. in M. M. Quaife Kingdom of St. James (1930) 214 Powerful exertions were making to delay until Congress could get some facts to act upon. 1863 M. Oliphant Rector (new ed.) iii. 23 If he had known anything in the world which would have given her consolation, he was ready to have made any exertion for it. 1871 S. Smiles Character i. 11 Every honest effort made in an upward direction. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer & Other Stories 12 He saw the young man's breast heaving as he made an effort for words. 1957 I. Murdoch Sandcastle ii. 28 Nan had made what she herself would call a real social effort. 1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful iii. iii. 182 Many people..plead that the rich countries ought to make a much bigger financial effort. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 42/1 They have been treated with all the solemnity due Pascal's Pensées by academic Benjaminians, who have made heroic exertions to restore this unwritten, unwritable work. < as lemmas |
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