be at pains
基本解释
- prep. 費盡力氣
英汉例句
- Even now, Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, is at pains to portray his plans as evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
即便到了今天,衛生大臣Andrew Lansley在描述其改良的而非革命的計劃時依然痛心疾首。 - Erian, an outspoken reformist on the brotherhood's guidance council, is at pains to sketch out the limits of his organisation's political ambitions.
埃利安是兄弟會訓導委員會裡一位坦率的改革主義者。 - Muhammad al-Jasser of Saudi Arabia is at pains to emphasise that “the surpluses of the oil-exporting economies of the Gulf [are] overstated as a problem.”
沙特央行行長埃爾亞瑟費盡苦心地強調“以石油出口爲主的海灣經濟躰的貿易順差問題被誇大了。” - But although I've been at pains to say this is the fundamental bad thing about death, I think it's arguable that-- I think one could make the case that this isn't the only bad thing about death, even if we're focusing on why is death bad for me?
但是雖然我一直在努力闡述,這是死亡的基本壞処,我覺得-,人們有理由認爲,這不是死亡的唯一壞処,就算我們重點思考爲何死亡對我是壞事?
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選 - Mr Plaskow is at pains to point out that Radlett is not a ghetto.
ECONOMIST: The strange cohesiveness of British Jewry - Mr Blocher is at pains to distance himself from Mr Haider, and other leaders of the far right.
ECONOMIST: Christoph Blocher, ascendant Swiss populist - He is at pains to suggest that his foreign policy would bear a striking similarity to Mr Blair's.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
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原聲例句
權威例句
词组短语
- be at the pains 盡力設法
- be at pains of 煞費苦心
- be at pains stations 手忙腳亂
- be at pains to 下苦功
- be at the pains of 煞費苦心