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

• 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。
• The 28-year-old actress trained for months for the grueling event.
  这位28岁的女星在参赛之前进行了为期数月的训练。
• The Hawaii Ironman is even more grueling.
  夏威夷铁人三项赛就更艰巨了。
• 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。
• 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。
• My body has held up to the test of time so far in this grueling sport of powerlifting.
  我的身体已经在这项极度疲劳的力量举运动中支撑了很久。
• 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。
• 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 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。