Tra từ toil - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
work/labour/toil in obscurity (=work without being well-known)
▪ After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging in museums.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
worker
▪ The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.
▪ Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.
▪ Elsewhere, factory workers toiled twelve hours a day, six days a week, and their hollow-eyed children worked with them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Men. women and children spent long hours toiling in the fields, whatever the weather conditions.
▪ My immigrant parents toiled night and day to make a living.
▪ Roger and his wife toiled round the clock for seven years to make a success of their business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a year, birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment.
▪ For eight years, he toiled in the House minority party.
▪ The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.
▪ This was a process in which I had never engaged back in the bad old days when I toiled on a typewriter.
▪ Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Here began their arduous toil to force a living from the land.
▪ man's desire for freedom from physical toil
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
▪ From now on Adam's work is to be sweat and toil.
▪ Man is made to relieve the gods of the toil of keeping the earth in order.
▪ Mortal pain and toil have yielded before the promise of redemption in Revelations.
▪ Such toil could easily be made unnecessary if a little social effort and investment could be applied.
▪ There was no time for the arduous toil required to master a foreign language.
▪ These, although mortal, lived like gods without sorrow of heart, far from toil and pain.
▪ Working copy: not likely to withstand further toil.

toil

I. toil¹ /tɔɪl/ verb [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Anglo-French; Origin : toiller, from Old French toeillier 'to disturb, argue', from Latin tudiculare 'to crush', from tudicula 'machine for crushing olives', from tudes 'hammer']
1. (also toil away) to work very hard for a long period of time
toil at
　 ▪ I’ve been toiling away at this essay all weekend.

2. literary to move slowly and with great effort
toil up/through/along etc
　 ▪ They toiled slowly up the hill.

II. toil² noun [UNCOUNTABLE] formal
Sense 1: [date : 1300-1400; Language : Anglo-French; Origin : toyl, from Old French toeil 'battle, confusion', from toeillier; ⇨ toil¹]
Sense 2: [date : 1500-1600; Origin : toil 'net' (16-19 centuries), from French toile; ⇨ toilet]
1. hard unpleasant work done over a long period:
　 ▪ a life of toil

2. the toils of something
literary if you are caught in the toils of an unpleasant feeling or situation, you are trapped by it