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assiduous

\uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\ , adjective:
1.Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive.
2.Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."
形容词 a.
1.勤勉的
2.照顾周到的;殷勤的
3.一丝不苟的

Quotes:
I can scarcely find time to write you even a Love Letter, Samuel Adams, an assiduous committeeman, wrote his wife in early 1776.
~Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
But he was assiduous in visiting the sick and the poor, however remote their farms and cottages.
~Jan Morris, "With God where the cuckoos sing", Independent, November 23, 1996
But he was a man who by assiduous reading, through his devotion to literature, had become the quintessential successful gentleman, a man who could hold his own with the most cultivated companions.
~Milton Gould, quoted in "For Cooke, a Lasting Memorial," by Peter Finn and Richard Justice, Washington Post, April 11, 1997

Origin:
Assiduous is from Latin assiduus, "constantly sitting near; hence diligent, persistent," from assidere, "to attend to," from ad-, "towards, to" + sedere, "to sit."