labored
(a.)吃力的,緩慢的;不自然的,矯揉造作的
La·bored a.
1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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La·bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.] [Written also labour.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. --Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
The line too labors, and the words move slow. --Pope.
To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
5. Naut. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
labored
adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: laboured,
strained]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject
made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, laboured]