| 单词 | laborious |
| 释义 | laborious (once / 714 pages) adj Laborious describes something that requires a lot of hard work, such as Victor Frankenstein’s laborious undertaking of digging graves to find monster parts. Laborious comes from the familiar word for work, labor, which doesn’t veer far from its roots in Old French meaning "exertion of the body," and from Latin “toil, pain, exertion, fatigue.” Anything that requires blood, sweat, and tears is laborious, and while it’s usually a good thing to work hard, laborious can also describe something over-thought, such as the heavy-handed plot of a bad TV show. Think labor plus boring, said like an old-fashioned English aristocrat: luh-bohr-ee-uhs. WORD FAMILYlaborious: laboriously, laboriousness+/labor: labored, laborer, laboring, laborious, labors/labored: laboredly/laborer: laborers USAGE EXAMPLESTo understand this laborious season, notice how awkward easy looks on them. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) Cleanup is laborious, often involving deleting single lines of code throughout a website’s infrastructure, and expensive. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) Asked about the laborious process, they both laughed. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) adj characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort spent many laborious hours on the project Syn arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome effortful requiring great physical effort |
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