toil

Compared meaning: hard physical work (noun).

比较义项：艰苦的体力劳动（名词）。

• labor

  Labor is the more common, neutral word for hard physical work, often used in practical contexts like farming or construction, without necessarily implying exhaustion or a long duration.

  labor 是更常见、中性的说法，指艰苦的体力劳动，常用于农业、建筑等实际语境，不一定强调疲惫或劳动持续时间长。

  The harvest demanded hours of hard labor from every worker on the farm.

  收获季节需要农场里每个工人付出数小时的艰苦劳动。

• toil 本词

  Toil emphasizes exhausting, prolonged work that wears a person down over time, with a more formal or literary tone, often describing daily grind or long-term hardship.

  toil 强调令人筋疲力尽、持续时间长的艰苦劳作，语气更正式或偏文学化，常用于描述日复一日的辛苦劳作或长期的艰辛。

  Years of toil in the fields left the farmers utterly exhausted.

  多年在田间的辛苦劳作让农民们疲惫不堪。

Both mean hard physical work. Labor is the common, neutral word, often for practical work like farming. Toil stresses long, tiring work that wears someone out, with formal or literary tone. This does not cover labor as childbirth or workers, nor toil as a verb.

这两个词都指艰苦的劳动，但语气和使用场合略有不同：labor 是较为中性、常用的说法，强调体力劳动本身；toil 更强调长时间、令人疲惫的辛苦劳作，语气更正式或偏文学化。这里不比较 labor 的“分娩”或“劳动力”等其他义项，也不比较 toil 作动词“辛苦劳作”的用法。