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くしん

くしん 苦心 名詞 骨折り ⦅やや書 ⦆pains ; 努力 (an ) effort (!しばしば複数形で ) ; 労力 labor . 苦労 苦心談 an account of one's bitter [painstaking, hard ] experiences .▸ 苦心の跡が見える bear traces of one's great pains [efforts, labor ].苦心する 動詞 ⦅やや書 ⦆take * [be at ] pains to do ; ⦅やや書 ⦆take [go * to great ] pains with +事 〙; work hard .▸ 彼は苦心してそれを完成した He took (great ) pains [was at (great ) pains ] to complete it .He completed it with great [much,many ] pains .▸ 彼はその仕事には苦心した He took (great ) [went to great ] pains with that work . (!to finish that work. ともいえる ) He worked hard to finish that work .