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 labored
 (a.)吃力的,緩慢的;不自然的,矯揉造作的

 La·bored a.
 1. Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
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 La·bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored p. pr. & vb. n. Laboring.]  [Written also labour.]
 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
 Adam, well may we labor still to dress
 This garden.   --Milton.
 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
 3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
    The stone that labors up the hill.   --Granville.
    The line too labors, and the words move slow.   --Pope.
    To cure the disorder under which he labored.   --Sir W. Scott.
    Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.   --Matt. xi. 28
 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
 5. Naut. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

 labored
      adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: laboured,
              strained]
      2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject
         made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, laboured]