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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• For a time, he had tried to convince himself that Fudge had indeed been a hallucination brought on by lack of sleep during his grueling election campaign.
  他一度确信福吉其实压根儿只是一个幻觉，经过紧张的竞选，他太缺乏睡眠了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。