laboured

英 [ˈleɪbəd]

美 [ˈleɪbərd]

adj.  缓慢而困难的; 不自然的; 费力的; 矫揉造作的
v.  努力做(困难的事); 干苦力活; 困难吃力地行进
labour的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：laboured　过去式：laboured　

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牛津词典

adj.

• 缓慢而困难的
  slow and taking a lot of effort
• 不自然的；费力的；矫揉造作的
  not natural and seeming to take a lot of effort

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （呼吸）缓慢的，困难的，费力的
  If someone's breathing islaboured, it is slow and seems to take a lot of effort.
  1. From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
     看他步履缓慢、呼吸困难的样子，金尼意识到他的身体还远未恢复。
• ADJ-GRADED （文章或言谈）刻意的，矫揉造作的
  If something such as someone's writing or speech islaboured, they have put too much effort into it so it seems awkward and unnatural.
  1. The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose...
     他笔下的公文矫揉浮华，长篇大论。
  2. Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
     丹尼尔与戈尔德的几次碰面都只是虚礼客套一番。

英英释义

adj

• requiring or showing effort
  1. heavy breathing
  2. the subject made for labored reading
  Synonym:heavylabored
• lacking natural ease
  1. a labored style of debating
  Synonym:laboredstrained

双语例句

• I still laboured under the delusion that policemen never told lies.
  我仍然存有这样的错觉，以为警察从不说谎。
• A lot of the jokes were rather laboured, I thought.
  我认为这些笑话中有很多是相当乏味的。
• We laboured all day in the fields.
  我们在田地里辛勤劳动了一整天。
• He laboured to make them understand his french.
  他努力想让他们听懂他的法语。
• While I admired and they laboured, dusk grew on, and with it returned the master.
  在我赞赏着他们，他们还在用功的当儿，暮色渐深了，主人随着也回来了。
• Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
  丹尼尔与戈尔德的几次碰面都只是虚礼客套一番。
• I laboured to understand him.
  我努力了解他的意思。
• He laboured in the mines for 30 years.
  他在矿里工作了30年。
• The prose of his official communications was so laboured, pompous and verbose
  他笔下的公文矫揉浮华，长篇大论。
• But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
  我若是有罪，又何苦白费心血？