belabour

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈleɪ.bə/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently. UK,obsolete,transitive
  2. To beat or thump (someone) soundly. UK,transitive
    — 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.
  3. To attack (someone) verbally. UK,transitive
  4. To discuss or explain (something) excessively or repeatedly; to harp on or overelaborate. UK,transitive
    — 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, inaugural speech Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belabouring those problems which divide us.

词形变化

belabours present,singular,third-person belabouring participle,present belaboured participle,past belaboured past belabor alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
belabouredly belabourer belabour the point

词源

From be- (“on, upon, about, over”) + labour. Compare bework, betoil, beswink.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary