Industrious

(a.) Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor.

(a.) Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious mischief maker.

编辑:基蒂

• And should you like to be always taken care of here, if you were industrious and deserving? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I don't know about that,' Miss Wren retorted; 'but you had better by half set up a pen-wiper, and turn industrious, and use it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There was plenty of leisure on the two daily runs, even for an industrious boy, and thus he found time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and re-establish it on the train. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She looks clean and industrious, Mr. Moore remarked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The expense of a great lord feeds generally more idle than industrious people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He is industrious, patiently adaptable to rank and file, equable and moderate in capacity and requirement. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is the sober and industrious poor who generally bring up the most numerous families, and who principally supply the demand for useful labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Nor is it a wonder, that politicians should be very industrious in inculcating such notions, where their interest is so particularly concerned. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Of all these industrious researches Miss Crawley had the full benefit. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They asked me to be industrious and faithful, and I promised to be so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I can be well recommended by all the neighbors, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And it would be as pretty a turn of things as could be that he should hold the place in a good industrious way after all--by his taking to business. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For four years I bind myself an industrious apprentice to all you can teach me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was as vivacious as ever and told us he was very industrious, but I was not easy in my mind about him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Her friend,' resumed the old man, motioning towards Lizzie; 'and as industrious as virtuous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But Tom is so steady, industrious, and pious. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The three young women, who appeared to be very industrious and comfortable, raised their heads to look at me, and then went on with their work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He was an industrious student both of mathematics and history, his memory was prodigiously good, and he made copious note-books which still exist. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But there is no country in which the whole annual produce is employed in maintaining the industrious. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If he will be industrious and frugal, 'tis ten to one but he gets rich, for he seems to have spirit and activity. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He acquired a habit of idleness on the expedition, but begins, of late, to apply himself to business, and, I hope, will become an industrious man. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Sally grows a fine girl, and is extremely industrious with her needle, and delights in her work. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• As a rich man is likely to be a better customer to the industrious people in his neighbourhood, than a poor, so is likewise a rich nation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Was he--I don't know how to shape the question-- murmured my guardian, industrious? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So much in stock, briskly turned by an industrious man, produces great advantage. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Nor even Mr Inspector, as having been trepanned into an industrious hunt on a false scent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is with industrious nations, who are advancing in the acquisition of riches, as with industrious individuals. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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