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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Florence Nightingale was doing this grueling work because it was vital, not because she had chosen it.
  这项辛劳的工作交给了弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔，并不是因为她主动请缨，而是这任务至关重要。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。