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。
• ( Applause.) After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs.
  （掌声）在多年的紧张的萧条期后，我们的商业已经创造了600万新的就业岗位。
• 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。
• Yesterday, I had this grueling fight scene with Gary Oldman. I know that it would have been much more difficult to do if I wasn't in shape.
  昨天，我和盖瑞奥德曼有场激烈的打斗戏，我知道若我的身体不在状况中肯定很难办到。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sniper Shot: Do you have nerves of steel and a rock steady trigger finger to last through the grueling sniper tournament and prove your worth.
  你有钢铁般的意志和稳定的岩石引发手指最后通过艰苦的狙击手比赛，证明你的价值。手枪速射：就以世界上最伟大的军队在狙击手学院。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。