They toiled with their hands for a living.

他们艰难地用他们的双手谋生。

Many still envision them as loners toiling in their garrets, perhaps with a nasty cough.

艺术家在很多人的印象中还是生活在破烂不堪的顶层小屋里，不喜欢和人相处，在窄小的房间里踱步，还不时发出难以忍受的咳嗽。

I had sweat and toiled with Kate, doing most of the work myself as I taught her.

我和凯特一起流汗和辛苦， 我教她的时候我自己做了大部分工作。

Six giants hold a fountain, symbolically toiling with the burden of life, as water - the source of life - cascades steadily over them.

六位巨人手持喷泉，象征着背负着生命的重担辛勤劳作，生命之源——水源源不断地从他们身上倾泻而下。

And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.

每星期一，八个仆人，包括一个临时园丁，整整苦于一天，用许多拖把、板刷、榔头、修枝剪来收拾前一晚的残局。

That a labourer in the fields should stand very much on the level of the beast that toils with him, can be neither desirable nor necessary.

一个在田里劳作的人与和他一起劳作的牲畜站在同一水平线上，这既不可取也没有必要。

During a million or two of years, every generation in turn had toiled with endless agony to attain and apply power, all the while betraying the deepest alarm and horror at the power they created.

在一百万或两年的时间里，每一代人都在无尽的痛苦中苦苦挣扎以获得和运用权力，同时对他们创造的权力表现出最深的惊恐和恐惧。

We want to win praise and admiration—or fame as we prefer to name it—and so we write great books, and paint grand pictures, and sing sweet songs; and toil with willing hands in study, loom, and laboratory.

我们想赢得赞誉和钦佩——或者我们更愿意称之为名望——所以我们写了好书，画了宏伟的图画，唱了甜美的歌；并在书房、织布机和实验室中心甘情愿地辛勤劳作。