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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The shoot was often grueling.
  拍摄过程是很劳累的。
• How would a man in the midst of such grueling competition act so joyously?
  在如此极度紧张的比赛中，一个人怎么能够显得这样兴高采烈？
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。