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

• Who could have ever imagined that I could find so many brothers in such a grueling and difficult competition, and who could have ever imagined that I could find my second home in China's Wuhan?
  谁会想到我能在这样残酷和艰难的比赛中找到那么多兄弟？谁会想到我能在中国的武汉找到第二个家？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• At just 14 years old, Harry is three years too young to enter the grueling competition.
  在只有14岁，哈利是三年太年轻而无法进入使极度疲劳竞争。
• 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。
• 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。
• You went through a grueling screening process.
  这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
• 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。