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

• 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。
• The shoot was often grueling.
  拍摄过程是很劳累的。
• 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。
• 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。
• You went through a grueling screening process.
  这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
• It is a period people in town simply refer to as "fresh," and it is grueling.
  小镇里的人称这段时间为“新鲜期”，这段时间的工作十分折磨人。
• ( 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Hawaii Ironman is even more grueling.
  夏威夷铁人三项赛就更艰巨了。