laboriously
苦労して
解説 Definition
苦労や努力を要する方法で。懸命に、一生懸命に行うさま。
Laboriously means doing something with a lot of effort, time, or difficulty. It often suggests slow, careful work because the task is hard or tiring. This word can describe both physical and mental effort.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
laboriously は laborious（骨の折れる、手間のかかる）に -ly が付いた副詞。まず labor を「労働・労力」で押さえると、「労力をかけてやる感じ」が残る。速く上手にではなく、時間も手間もかけてコツコツ進める場面で使う語。laboriously copy the text, laboriously climb the hill のように、楽ではない作業を地道に続ける絵で覚える。carefully が「注意深く」なら、laboriously は「骨が折れるほど手間をかけて」が核。
Build it from `labor`, which means work and effort. `Laborious` is full of effort, and `laboriously` means doing something in that slow, hard-working way. Compare it with `carefully`: `carefully` is about attention, but `laboriously` is about heavy effort.
例文
She laboriously climbed the steep mountain path.
彼女は急な山道を苦労しながら登った。
He laboriously wrote the entire report by hand.
彼は報告書全体を手作業で一生懸命書いた。
The team laboriously completed the project after many setbacks.
チームは多くの挫折の後、プロジェクトを苦労しながら完成させた。
laboriously の類義語・関連語
laboriously の語源・成り立ち Etymology
「laboriously」は laborious + -ly で、「骨の折れるほど働いて」を副詞化した形。laborious はラテン語 labor「労苦・仕事」+ -ous に由来し、labor- が「しんどい作業」の核を保つ。labor や elaborate を知ると、努力の重みがつかめる。
Laboriously comes from laborious plus the adverb suffix -ly. Laborious comes from Latin labor, meaning "work, effort, hardship," so the word keeps the idea of difficult or tiring work. It is related to labor, and more distantly to elaborate, which originally suggested work put into something.
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