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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• His grueling schedule is just one not-so-subtle hint of what he expects from employees.
  他总是排得满满的日程，就不太隐晦地暗示出他对手下员工的期望。
• He said in a statement issued by his production company that it was one of his most grueling shoots ever.
  他在他的制作公司发表的一个声明中说，这是一个他曾经经历的最辛苦的拍摄。
• 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。