be at pains

基本解释

Even now, Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, is at pains to portray his plans as evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
即便到了今天，衛生大臣Andrew Lansley在描述其改良的而非革命的計劃時依然痛心疾首。
Erian, an outspoken reformist on the brotherhood's guidance council, is at pains to sketch out the limits of his organisation's political ambitions.
埃利安是兄弟會訓導委員會裡一位坦率的改革主義者。
Muhammad al-Jasser of Saudi Arabia is at pains to emphasise that “the surpluses of the oil-exporting economies of the Gulf [are] overstated as a problem.”
沙特央行行長埃爾亞瑟費盡苦心地強調“以石油出口爲主的海灣經濟躰的貿易順差問題被誇大了。”

But although I've been at pains to say this is the fundamental bad thing about death, I think it's arguable that-- I think one could make the case that this isn't the only bad thing about death, even if we're focusing on why is death bad for me?
但是雖然我一直在努力闡述,這是死亡的基本壞処，我覺得-,人們有理由認爲,這不是死亡的唯一壞処，就算我們重點思考爲何死亡對我是壞事？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節選

Mr Plaskow is at pains to point out that Radlett is not a ghetto.
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Mr Blocher is at pains to distance himself from Mr Haider, and other leaders of the far right.
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He is at pains to suggest that his foreign policy would bear a striking similarity to Mr Blair's.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot