| 单词 | to toil and moil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto toil and moil 2. intransitive. To toil, work hard, drudge. Now chiefly British regional except in to toil and moil (cf. toil and moil at moil n.1 2).Sometimes with meaning coloured by sense 1b: to become wet and muddy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil sweatc897 swingc1000 swinkOE travailc1275 carka1350 tavec1350 to-swinkc1386 labourc1390 byswenke?a1400 tevelc1400 toilc1400 pingle1511 carp1522 moilc1529 turmoil1548 mucker1566 tug1619 tuggle1650 fatigue1695 hammer1755 fag1772 bullock1888 slog1888 to sweat one's guts out1890 schlep1937 slug1943 c1529 Sayinges or Prouerbes King Salomon sig. Aii Caste a stone at an ape.., if that he scape The more wyll he mowe and moyle. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.vii They [sc. unpreaching prelates] are soo troubeled wyth lordlye liuyng,..mounchynge in their maungers, and moilyng in their gay manoures and mansyons, and so troubeled wyth loyterynge in theyr Lordeshyppes. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates f. ii And moyleth for no more then for his needfull hyre. 1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. Kv To toyle and moyle for worldly drosse. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 44v Heere we labour, drudge and moyle. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 201 But moile not too much vnder Ground: For the Hope of Mines is very Vncertaine. 1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 250 Vega hath spent..20 chapters..wherin he moyles in sweate and dust. c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 387 He moils and toils..to come at them [sc. riches]. 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance ii. i. 20 I must moyl on in the damn'd dirty Road, And sure such Pay will make the Journey easie. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 50 With thee 'twas Marian's dear Delight, To moil all day, and merry make at Night. 1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 145 E'en lat him gae, Wi' Sisyphus to moil. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. xi. 169 Who toil and moil in stores and factories. 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. v. 205 The commentators are signally at fault in moiling at this passage. 1880 R. Browning Dramatic Idyls 2nd Ser. 34 A lawyer wins repute—Having to toil and moil. 1907 J. M. Synge Playboy of Western World i. 20 And I after toiling, moiling, digging, dodging from the dawn till dusk. 1961 O. Nash Coll. Verse 274 Heroes who moil and toil and fight Exist on eight hours' sleep a night. 1988 P. Toynbee End of Journey 69 How grossly adolescent it seems that at sixty-three I should still be toiling and moiling with the ego. to toil and moil to toil and moil: see moil v. 2.extracted from toilv.1< as lemmas |
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