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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The people are dying in large numbers, and are used to it; they have acquired modes of living natural to a people who are becoming extinct--the death of children, exhausting toil for women, insufficiency of food for all, especially for the aged--all comes and is received naturally.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.
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