grueling

英

美

adj.  紧张的，激烈的；使极度疲劳的

GRE

COCA.14218

英英释义

adj

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
  1. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
  2. a grueling campaign
  3. hard labor
  4. heavy work
  5. heavy going
  6. spent many laborious hours on the project
  7. set a punishing pace
  Synonym:arduousbackbreakinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

双语例句

• So part of the goal here is, this should not be a grueling, exhausting kind of task, it's really something that should be helping you learn the material.
  所以部分目标在于，这不应该是一个累赘，不是那种沉重的任务，它应该能帮助你，学习材料。
• Florence Nightingale was doing this grueling work because it was vital, not because she had chosen it.
  这项辛劳的工作交给了弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔，并不是因为她主动请缨，而是这任务至关重要。
• The shoot was often grueling.
  拍摄过程是很劳累的。
• When Diana was here, Shanghai was a pretty lucrative place to work. It was grueling the hours were long and conditions on the job weren't great but you could still make good money.
  戴安娜在的时候，上海还是一个非常有利可图的市场。模特一行确实很累人，需要一连工作数个小时，条件也不怎么好，但收入颇丰。
• The Hawaii Ironman is even more grueling.
  夏威夷铁人三项赛就更艰巨了。
• It can be even more grueling when the enterprise uses multiple, disparate systems.
  当企业使用多个完全异构系统时，问题会更加严重。
• You went through a grueling screening process.
  这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
• At just 14 years old, Harry is three years too young to enter the grueling competition.
  在只有14岁，哈利是三年太年轻而无法进入使极度疲劳竞争。
• The 28-year-old actress trained for months for the grueling event.
  这位28岁的女星在参赛之前进行了为期数月的训练。
• Many starved to death on the grueling journey to nearby Shaanxi Province.
  许多人在临近陕西省的路上饿死。