英语词汇“toil”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

toiltoil1 /tɔɪl/ verb [intransitive always + adv./prep.]

ETYMOLOGYtoil¹

Origin: 1200-1300 Anglo-French toiller, from Old French toeillier to disturb, argue, from Latin tudiculare to crush, from tudicula machine for crushing olives, from tudes hammer

VERB TABLE

toil

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	toil
	he, she, it	toils
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	toiled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have toiled
	he, she, it	has toiled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had toiled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will toil
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have toiled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am toiling
	he, she, it	is toiling
	you, we, they	are toiling
Past	I, he, she, it	was toiling
	you, we, they	were toiling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been toiling
	he, she, it	has been toiling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been toiling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be toiling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been toiling

1 (also toil away) to work very hard for a long period of time SYN labor: Workers toiled day and night to make a living.2to move slowly and with great effort SYN struggle: toil up/through/against etc. They toiled up the long hill in snowshoes.

verb | noun

toiltoil2 noun formal

ETYMOLOGYtoil²

Origin: (1) 1300-1400 Anglo-French toyl, from Old French toeil battle, confusion, from toeillier; ➔ TOIL¹ (2) 1500-1600 toil net (16-19 centuries), from French toile; ➔ TOILET

1[uncountable] hard difficult work done over a long time: a life of toil2the toils of something literary bad experiences or feelings, especially in a situation that you cannot escape