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Definition of toils in English: toilsplural nountɔɪlztɔɪlz literary Used in reference to a situation regarded as a trap. 〈诗/文〉陷阱；圈套 Henry had become caught in the toils of his own deviousness 亨利的阴险狡诈把自己坑了。 Example sentencesExamples - In the throes of these catastrophes the world urgently needs a new reformation, but one inflamed by love in action, rather than one caught in the toils of humanist fundamentalism.
- Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
- Because sooner or later sociopaths tend to get caught in their manipulative toils, and the scales fall from everyone's eyes and what was charming becomes loathsome in an instant.
- The economy in 1939 was still caught in the toils of the Depression.
- Yet the question remains whether grace - amazing or otherwise - will be enough to carry the church once again through the ‘dangers, toils and snares’ bemoaned in that old hymn.
Synonyms trick, stratagem, ploy, ruse, wile, deception, artifice, subterfuge, device, trickery trap, net, snare
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting a net into which a hunted quarry is driven): plural of toil, from Old French toile 'net, trap' (see toile). Definition of toils in US English: toilsplural nountɔɪlztoilz literary Used in reference to a situation regarded as a trap. 〈诗/文〉陷阱；圈套 Henry had become caught in the toils of his own deviousness 亨利的阴险狡诈把自己坑了。 Example sentencesExamples - Yet the question remains whether grace - amazing or otherwise - will be enough to carry the church once again through the ‘dangers, toils and snares’ bemoaned in that old hymn.
- Because sooner or later sociopaths tend to get caught in their manipulative toils, and the scales fall from everyone's eyes and what was charming becomes loathsome in an instant.
- The economy in 1939 was still caught in the toils of the Depression.
- In the throes of these catastrophes the world urgently needs a new reformation, but one inflamed by love in action, rather than one caught in the toils of humanist fundamentalism.
- Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Synonyms trick, stratagem, ploy, ruse, wile, deception, artifice, subterfuge, device, trickery trap, net, snare
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting a net into which a hunted quarry is driven): plural of toil, from Old French toile ‘net, trap’ (see toile). |