characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
"worked their arduous way up the mining valley" "a grueling campaign" "hard labor" "heavy work" "heavy going" "spent many laborious hours on the project" "set a punishing pace"
例句
Housework is usually miscellaneous and toilsome. 家务劳动通常是繁杂的。
Like most parents , they are toilsome. 但去了之后，又有了不一样的感受。
It was sufficiently toilsome for one contending for life. 这对于一个逃命的人来说是够吃力的。
Walking in the burning sunshine becomes toilsome and wearisome. 热气开始袭来，尤其在火热的阳光下走路，变得更辛苦和疲乏了。
Those days closed the relationship among us which were toilsome but enjoyable. 那段日子虽然辛苦,但却十分令人愉快,它拉近了我们之间的距离。
For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 就同你所爱的妻/夫快活度日，因为这是你在日光之下劳碌所得的分。
