toil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 辛劳工作, 艰难地行动; n. 苦工, 难事，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He moved from end to end of his voluptuous bedroom, looking again at the scraps of the day's journey that came unbidden into his mind; the slow toil up the hill at sunset, the setting sun, the descent, the mill, the prison on the crag, the little village in the hollow, the peasants at the fountain, and the mender of roads with his blue cap pointing out the 178 A tale of two citieschain under the carriage.
-- Then began the rarely lightened toil of the day among the village population.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What have I to strive and toil for?
-- It was the time when there comes a brief pause in the toil of the fields before the beginning of the labors of harvest--every year recurring, every year straining every nerve of the peasants.
-- In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's.
-- All the long day of toil had left no trace in them but lightness of heart.
-- "No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cramped on the red-plush seat of the day-coach (he who of late had ridden in silken private cars), he grinned with the joy of no longer having to toil at dinner-parties.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Some brothersare not loved over much; and some love- but help yourself,Copperfield!We'll drink the daisies of the field, in compliment toyou; and the lilies of the valley that toil not, neither do they spin, incompliment to me- the more shame for me!'
-- By this time, however, I knew that his restless nature andbold spirits delighted to find a vent in rough toil and hard weather,as in any other means of excitement that presented itself freshly tohim; so none of his proceedings surprised me.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What devouring kind of toil could have so shriveled him?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
-- But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other un-wholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment.
-- Felix rejected his offers with con-tempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was allowed to visit her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully re-ward his toil and hazard.
-- I have endured toil and misery; I left Switzerland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among its willow islands and over the summits of its hills.
-- Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the very hour of his return almost before the shoe upon his foot is dry he asperses his father's memory to his mother!Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime!Has misgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much plunder; and asks to whom they shall be given up, as reparation and restitution!'
-- 'Understand me!I don't say,' he replied in his steady, planning way, and looking into the distance before him as if his grey eye were measuring it, 'that it's recompense for a man's toil and hope; but it's a certain sort of relief to know that I might have counted on this.'
-- With those words, he pressed his hand and released it; and his daughter, laying her face against his, encircled him in the hour of his prosperity with her arms, as she had in the long years of his adversity encircled him with her love and toil and truth; and poured out her full heart in gratitude, hope, joy, blissful ecstasy, and all for him.
-- Nobody knew that the Merdle of such high renown had ever done any good to any one, alive or dead, or to any earthly thing; nobody knew that he had any capacity or utterance of any sort in him, which had ever thrown, for any creature, the feeblest farthing-candle ray of light on any path of duty or diversion, pain or pleasure, toil or rest, fact or fancy, among the multiplicity of paths in the labyrinth trodden by the sons of Adam; nobody had the smallest reason for supposing the clay of which this object of worship was made, to be other than the commonest clay, with as clogged a wick smouldering inside of it as ever kept an image of humanity from tumbling to pieces.
-- He told me, that besides the discipline his spirit had undergone, he had lived in a starved house, where rioting and gaiety were unknown, and where every day was a day of toil and trial like the last.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, be-cause I'm poor and can't enjoy my life as other girls do.
-- That being done, he felt that he was ready to 'hide his stricken heart, and still toil on'.
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