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adjective
"Though there will no longer be the need of a toilsome journey as far as Paris," he concluded.
—No os será ya necesario un viaje largo y fatigoso a París —le dijo para terminar—.
Jarles was vaguely glad when he heard Mother Jujy sell him a piece of magic the performance of which would involve several toilsome and degrading actions.
Jarles se sintió bastante animado cuando oyó que la Madre Jujy le vendía una poción mágica cuya utilización exigía llevar a cabo varias acciones fatigosas y degradantes.
The grizzled frontiersman who had smiled at Nell stood leaning on his gun, talking to three men, whose travel-stained and worn homespun clothes suggested a long and toilsome journey.
El cazador canoso que le sonriera estaba apoyado sobre su rifle y, hablaba con tres hombres, cuyos trajes manchados y raídos revelaban lo largo del viaje fatigoso.
adjective
By Mis’ry, Shame, Remorse, pursu’d; And as thy toilsome steps proceed,
perseguido por miseria, locura, afrenta, remordimiento, con pasos laboriosos avanzas,
The tool-and-diemaker understood penniless idleness, but what was he to make of toilsome pennilessness?
El obrero comprendía la ociosidad miserable, pero ¿qué podía pensar de la miseria laboriosa?
All the butt repetition, the toilsome boredom she endured in the name of keeping fit.
Todas las flexiones para las nalgas, el laborioso tedio que soportaba en aras de mantenerse en forma.
Charlotte thought and thought, mainly about how toilsome it was to have to talk…to anybody about anything, especially anything to do with Dupont.
Charlotte pensó y pensó, sobre todo en lo laborioso que resultaba tener que hablar con quien fuera de lo que fuera, y más si tenía que ver con Dupont.
And they needn't try telling me now that their job was toilsome too: from that gluey mess that filled their heads anything could have come out, and a photosensitive mechanism doesn't take all that much trouble to put together.
Y no me vengan con que fue una brega laboriosa también la de ellos: de aquella papilla mucilaginosa que les llenaba la cabeza podía salir todo, y no hace falta mucho para sacar un dispositivo fotosensible.
He had realized he must be walking in circles around it and guessed that Sheelba had cast a dizzying enchantment on the area, perhaps to ensure against interruption while working some particularly toilsome and heinous magic.
Se dio cuenta de que estaba andando en círculos alrededor de la choza y supuso que Sheelba había lanzado un encantamiento en la zona, tal vez para evitar que le interrumpieran mientras trabajaba en alguna magia especialmente laboriosa y horrenda.
adjective
What did he now believe, at the end of a toilsome and sometimes humiliating apprenticeship?
¿En qué creía entonces, al cabo de un aprendizaje arduo y a veces humillante?
Most of the people you see are asking themselves, you imagine, whether the game is worth the candle, and work is not better than such toilsome play.
La mayoría de personas que ves andan preguntándose, imagínate, si el juego vale lo que apostaron, y si el trabajo no es mejor que tan ardua partida.
It was between seven and eight before Hanson arrived, with a waggonful of our effects and two of his wife's relatives to lend him a hand. The elder showed surprising strength. He would pick up a huge packing-case, full of books of all things, swing it on his shoulder, and away up the two crazy ladders and the breakneck spout of rolling mineral, familiarly termed a path, that led from the cart-track to our house. Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious;
Eran entre las siete y las ocho antes de que llegara Hanson, con un carro lleno con nuestros efectos personales y dos parientes de su mujer para echarle una mano. El mayor resultaba sorprendentemente fuerte. Podía levantar un enorme cajón, lleno precisamente de libros, echárselo al hombro y subir por las dos desvencijadas escaleras y el conducto suicida de mineral suelto, calificado familiarmente de sendero, que conducía desde el camino de carros a nuestra casa. Incluso para un hombre descargado, el ascenso era arduo y precario;
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