Pains

(n.) Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

编辑:帕梅拉

• He took pains to prove that he only just tolerated me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Jarndyce took great pains to talk with him seriously and to put it to his good sense not to deceive himself in so important a matter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• If it were even to take pains to prevent their importation, it would not be able to effectuate it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• H istor y of Bodily Pains, as species of Touch. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The woman was holding her wrist and timing the pains with a watch. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I've been having some pains, darling. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It would be wisdom to abandon it now, after all the time, anxiety, and pains I have bestowed upon it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Another of the popular fictions of Coketown, which some pains had been taken to disseminate—and which some people really believed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He took no pains to conceal his calculations and tactics. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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