operose如何读

英:['ɒpəˌrəʊs]

美:['ɒpəˌroʊs]

operose是什么意思

  • adj.费力的;吃力的;勤勉的

operose英英释义

Adjective:
  1. 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"

operose词源中文解释

"费力的,乏味的,需要大量劳动的",来自1670年代的拉丁语 operosus,意为“费尽心思的,费力的,积极的,勤劳的”,源自 opus(属格 operis)“工作”(来自 PIE 词根 *op- “工作,丰产”)。相关词汇: Operosely; operoseness; operosity(1620年代)。

operose词源英文解释

borrowed from Latin operōsus "diligent, painstaking, laborious," from opera "activity, effort, work" + -ōsus -ose >entry 1 — more at opera >entry 2

The first known use of operose was in 1662

operose 例句

1 What an operose method!

多么费事的方法呀!

2 Stephens called it “dry operose quackery ... mere chaff not studied from nature, and therefore worthless, never felt, and therefore useless”.

3 It seems to me a circuitous and operose way of relieving myself to put upon your community the emancipation which I ought to take on myself.

4 Nor is the ascription of existence to universality, particularity, and co-inhesion dependent on any sui generis existence of their own; for such an hypothesis is operose, requiring too many sui generis existences.

5 The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France.

6 The more curious and operose Manufactures are, the more Hands they employ; and that with the Variety of them, the Number of Workmen must still encrease, wants no Proof.

7 The different modifications of the vowel sounds are effected by minute changes in the conformation of the organs; those of the articulations are made by more distinct and operose inflections of the organs.

8 The atmosphere of operose indolence, prolonged through centuries and centuries, stifles; nor can antiquity and influence impose upon a mind which resents monkery itself as an essential evil.

9 An operose and expensive establishment of a Supreme Court was made, and charged upon the revenues of the country.

10 How came it, when a Greek sculptor had completed some operose performance, that his countrymen bore him in triumph thro' their city, and rejoiced in his prosperity as identical with their own?

11 He that gives most Trouble to Thousands of his Neighbours, and invents the most operose Manufactures is, right or wrong, the greatest Friend to the Society.

12 He might have considered that the facility and vivacity of his pleasing compositions were preferable to that art, that habitual pomp, and that ostentatious eloquence, which prevail in the operose labours of Johnson.

13 In the execution, it was an operose business on both sides of the water.

14 A complex, operose office of account and control is, in itself, and even if members of Parliament had nothing to do with it, the most prodigal of all things.

15 To most persons this mode of confutation was by far too operose; but they might have confoundedly puzzled the philosopher in verbal disputation.

16 Well, I go on in the office, operose nihil agenda, very operose, and very nihil too.

17 The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, "he must have had little to do that made that!" might be put as epigraph on all the song books of old France.

18 The style too is in many places below Leighton's ordinary style—in some places even turbid, operose, and catechrestic;—for example,—"to trample on smilings with one foot and on frownings with the other."

19 Browne might himself have obtained the same conviction by a method less operose, if he had thrust his needles through corks, and set them afloat in two basins of water.

20 What an operose method!

多么费事的方法呀!

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