pains
noun[plural]
uk/peɪnz/us/peɪnz/be at pains to dosomething
totryvery hard to do something:
尽心竭力，花大力气做…She is at pains topointout how muchworkshe has done.她极力表白她做了的工作是那么多。
go to/take great pains to dosomething
to make a lot ofeffortto do something:
不辞劳苦做…I went togreatpains toselectthebeststaffavailable.我煞费苦心地从现有人员里挑选最好的员工。
Effort and expending energy
- assiduity
- assiduous
- assiduously
- assiduousness
- be running on emptyidiom
- blood
- elbow grease
- fight
- hamster wheel
- hard at itidiom
- heavy lifting
- heroically
- kill
- push
- rearguard action
- set/putyourmind tosomethingidiom
- shot
- slog
- slugger
- strenuous