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

• 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。
• 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。
• ( 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。