英语词组take pains, to是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

take (great) pains (to do something)

Fig. to make a great effort to do something. Tom took pains to decorate the room exactly right. We took great pains to get there on time.

take pains, to

To make a laborious effort; to take assiduous care. The use of pains for “troubles” dates from Shakespeare’s time and survives mainly in this cliché (and in the adjective painstaking). “Yet much he praised the pains he took, And well those pains did pay,” wrote Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808).

词组	take pains, to
释义	take (great) pains (to do something) Fig. to make a great effort to do something. Tom took pains to decorate the room exactly right. We took great pains to get there on time. take pains, to To make a laborious effort; to take assiduous care. The use of pains for “troubles” dates from Shakespeare’s time and survives mainly in this cliché (and in the adjective painstaking). “Yet much he praised the pains he took, And well those pains did pay,” wrote Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808).
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