To make painstaking and unique efforts to achieve exceptional insights or accomplishments; to apply oneself assiduously and ingeniously to a difficult problem.
这位科学家苦心孤诣地研究了十年，终于在理论物理领域取得了突破性进展。
This scientist, through painstaking and unique efforts, researched for ten years and finally made a breakthrough in theoretical physics.
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