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

• How would a man in the midst of such grueling competition act so joyously?
  在如此极度紧张的比赛中，一个人怎么能够显得这样兴高采烈？
• Over the years, he's endured dozens of surgeries and procedures, and hours of grueling rehab every day.
  这些年来，他每天经历很多个手术和治疗，并花数个小时做康复运动。
• The presentation of future plans had been a grueling work.
  制定这些计划是一项令人精疲力竭的工作。
• But as HP is learning, turning a tech giant around is a grueling process that can take years.
  但惠普公司的切身经历显示，重振一个科技巨头并非易事，可能需要多年的努力。
• 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。
• Who could have ever imagined that I could find so many brothers in such a grueling and difficult competition, and who could have ever imagined that I could find my second home in China's Wuhan?
  谁会想到我能在这样残酷和艰难的比赛中找到那么多兄弟？谁会想到我能在中国的武汉找到第二个家？
• I can't make it up the grueling climbs with a lot of extra weight.
  我不可能带着多余的负重攀岩。
• 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。
• And 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.
  有8000万的中国高中生都已经参加过这个独木桥考试。
• Instead, they got an extremely grueling eight-month static battle that saw hundreds of thousands of dead Allied and Ottoman forces.
  相反，结果带来的却是极其辛苦的长达八个月的静态战争，成千上万的盟军和奥斯曼军人在这场战争中牺牲了。