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Laboriously is how you do something when it takes a lot of time and effort: slowly, heavily, and often with the effort showing. He climbed the laboriously — each step costs him. She copied the names laboriously, one by one. Like , it can hint that the work looks stiff rather than easy, as if the person is pushing the thing uphill. It is a slightly formal adverb; everyday English may just say “with a lot of effort” or “the hard way”. Use it of the action, not of the person.
費力地、辛苦地
組成From laborious + -ly.
同家族的字
- laboriousthe adjective this adverb is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
laboriouslyadv/ləˈbɔː.ɹi.əs.lɪ/
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With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
- The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.
- At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。