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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have urged my friends to cross the Pampas, to toil over the plains of Australia, but I will never lure them into the mazes of the New Zealand forest.
-- What toil and pain to reach a coast so full of danger when attained.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By dint of daily toil he earned enough to enable him to follow the college courses, and at last to enter the university.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True it is that they have had toil enough to be disheartened.
-- He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- He accepted the sacrifice, yet none the less increased their toil continually.
-- Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen.
-- As torrents swollen with rain course madly down their deep channels till the angry floods meet in some gorge, and the shepherd on the hillside hears their roaring from afar even such was the toil and uproar of the hosts as they joined in battle.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a very sooth-ing lullaby, and the first verse says: Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, Sitting at the doorways of a day of long ago, Gave to each his portion, food and toil and fate, From the King upon the guddee to the Beggar at the gate.
-- Shiv and the Grasshopper (The song that Toomai's mother sang to the baby) Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, Sitting at the doorways of a day of long ago, Gave to each his portion, food and toil and fate, From the King upon the guddee to the Beggar at the gate.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bleak and black hills lay on every side of them, compensating in some degree for the additional toil of the march by the sense of security they imparted.
-- Heyward assisted the sisters to descend, and in a few minutes they were all far down a mountain whose sides they had climbed with so much toil and pain.
-- As if satisfied with the toil of marching through the wilderness to encounter his enemy, the French general, though of approved skill, had neglected to seize the adjacent mountains; whence the besieged might have been exterminated with impunity, and which, in the more mod-ern warfare of the country, would not have been neglected for a single hour.
-- In short, everything wore rather the appear-ance of a day of pleasure, than of an hour stolen from the dangers and toil of a bloody and vindictive warfare.
-- Heyward soon pressed to the side of their guide, eager to catch an early glimpse of those enemies he had pursued with so much toil and anxiety.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Leave Nell and me to toil and work.'
-- His household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stone; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart; and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of rags and toil and scanty fare, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
-- "Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do his bidding.
-- But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.
-- Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and so, alow here, does jolly Stubb.
-- Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Minnie's manner was one of trained industry, and Carrie could see that it was a steady round of toil with her.
-- Her sympathies were ever with that under-world of toil from which she had so recently sprung, and which she best understood.
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