1590s, "to exert one's strength upon," from be- + labor (v.). But figurative sense of "assail with words" is attested somewhat earlier (1590s); and belabored is attested from mid-15c. with a sense of "tilled, cultivated."
雙語例句
1. Don't belabor the point.
別再羅嗦這事兒了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabor.