单词

laborious

读音

ləˈbɔːriəs

美式

英式

词根

"Laborious"源自拉丁词根"labo-", 意味着“工作”。与此词根关联的单词还有例如"collaborate"（合作）、"labour"（劳动）等。

释义

adj. 艰苦的；费劲的；勤劳的

例句

Keeping the garden tidy all year round can be a laborious task.

保持院子全年整洁会是一项费时费力的任务。

Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.

摄影曾经是一项昂贵艰苦的煎熬，是为生命中最伟大的里程碑时刻保留的。

Milton has just been lamenting the fact that the laborious days of the poet might not result in a sudden blaze of fame.

弥尔顿一直在为诗人辛苦的日子可能不会带来突然的名声而感叹。

强化记忆

你可以通过联想词根“labo-”与“劳动”的相似性，以此来记住这个词。同时，词缀“-ous”在很多形容词中都可以见到，这也许会帮助你记住它。"Laborious"首次出现在16世纪，源自法语"laborieux"，又源自拉丁语"laboriosus"。在过去和现代的英语中，它都被用来描述需要大量努力和时间的事物。

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There are many challenges in turning fonio into food.Traditional processing is laborious and time-consuming,especially when compared to other grains.

We just have to be thinner than our partners.So instead of all that laborious dieting and exercising,we just need to wait for them to get fat --

So they had created these artifacts.Now she had them look at them and do this ... laborious,which I thought for a long time, until she explained to me was

following the path of Ernest Shackleton's earlier attempt to reach the pole.But although this course had been documented, it proved slow and laborious.Meanwhile, despite an initial false start,

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