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

• 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。
• But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is more grueling than Reynolds had reckoned.
  但是，丛林作战，特别是对日军熟悉地形的克钦邦，是更激烈了比雷诺兹计算。
• It is a period people in town simply refer to as "fresh," and it is grueling.
  小镇里的人称这段时间为“新鲜期”，这段时间的工作十分折磨人。
• For the next grueling year, I'll be your homeroom teacher.
  在接下来辛苦的一年，我将是你们的班主任。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• You went through a grueling screening process.
  这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
• We got home after a grueling drive.
  经过一段令人精疲力竭的开车我们到家了。
• 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。