单词 | arduously |
释义 | arduously (once / 52765 pages) adv If you do something arduously, you put a lot of hard work into it. When a runner trains arduously for a marathon, she practices in a dedicated, rigorous way. A music student training to be a professional violinist has to practice arduously, and a swimmer fighting against a strong current must swim arduously to make it back to shore. In either case, there is difficult, focused work being done. The adverb arduously comes from its adjective form, arduous, from the Latin root arduus, literally "high or steep," and figuratively "difficult." WORD FAMILYarduous: arduously, arduousness USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps they were primed to vent after playing in the championship that tests them most arduously. Golf Digest(Jun 29, 2016) Many of those plans, though arduously pursued, were never realized. New York Times(May 12, 2016) In fact, most of that season’s 16 contestants have regained much if not all the weight they lost so arduously. New York Times(May 02, 2016) adv in an arduous manner they worked arduously |
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