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toil1 I. verb intranzitiv
1. a munci (din greu), a (se) trudi;
to toil and moll a) a munci din greu, a se trudi, a se speti; b) a munci cu îndârjire; c) a-şi câştiga pâinea cu sudoarea frunţii;
to toil at a munci din greu (ca un rob) la, a se trudi cu
2. a înainta cu greu, a se târî;
to toil along a înainta anevoie de-a lungul; a se târî de-a lungul;
to toil on a) a-şi continua munca, a-şi vedea de lucru; b) a-şi continua drumul, a-şi vedea de drum;
to toil through a-şi croi anevoie drum prin;
to toil up a hill a urca anevoie un deal;
to toil upward a urca / a se ridica cu trudă / cu mari eforturi.
toil1 II. substantiv
muncă grea / anevoioasă; trudă; osteneală;
the toils of war truda şi ostenelile războiului;
after great toil după multă trudă.
toil1 substantiv (mai ales toils plural)
1. (cinegetică, mai ales fig.) plasă, mreajă; laţ; cursă, capcană;
toils of a spider pânză de păianjen;
(fig.) to be taken in the toils, to get caught in the toils a) a cădea în cursă; b) a fi prins în mreje, a fi fermecat / vrăjit.
2. (cinegetică, înv.) fanion de îngrădire.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
They toiled at it all day.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
Another day of heart-breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two topmasts to the good.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Fanny felt the advantage; and, drawing back from the toils of civility, would have been again most happy, could she have kept her eyes from wandering between Edmund and Mary Crawford.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
The men toiled without speech across the face of the frozen world.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
I have always aspired, if I could have released him from the toils in which he was held, to render back some little portion of the love and care I owe him, and to devote my life to him.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
John was to give his blood, as he is the more young and strong than me—here Arthur took my hand and wrung it hard in silence—but, now you are here, you are more good than us, old or young, who toil much in the world of thought.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
That night, while they toiled on under the electric lights, he explained it.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
He toiled on till dark, when he went out to the reading-room and explored magazines and weeklies until the place closed at ten o'clock.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
Toil is a good thing.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
It was not toil.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)