2012_05_21 Belabor v. 要堅持攻擊, 勞動。work more than is necessary

Word of the Day for Monday, May 21, 2012
belabor \bih-LEY-ber\, verb:
1. To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary.
2. To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule.
3. To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.
4. Obsolete. To labor at.
Yours and everybody else's, thought Swiffers, but he didn't wish to belabor the obvious.
 -- Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
It is distasteful to the present writer to belabor any of his fellow writers, living or dead, and, except Boccaccio, who also stood for a detestable human trait, he has here avoided doing so.
 -- Ford Madox Ford, The March of Literature
Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabor me soundly; but they insulted me as coarsely as they could in their little way.
 -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
痛打\波黑脈BER\，動詞：

1。解釋，擔心，或更比是必要的。
2。要堅持攻擊，輕蔑或嘲笑。
3。大力擊敗重拳層。
4。過時。勞動。

你和其他人的，以為的Swiffers，但他不想痛打明顯。
- 湯姆·羅賓斯，從炎熱的氣候梟榮軍首頁

痛打他的同胞的作家，活的或死到現在的作家，這是令人反感，除非薄伽丘，誰也站在一個可恨的人類特質，他已經在這裡避免這樣做。
- 福特馬多克斯福特，文學三月

他們既不擁有能源，或機智，痛打我的健康，但他們侮辱我粗，因為他們可以在他們的小方式。
- 夏洛蒂·勃朗特“簡愛”

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