backbreaking

英 [ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ]

美

adj.  累断腰的; 繁重的

现在分词：backbreaking　

TEM8

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 累断腰的；繁重的
  Back-breakingwork involves a lot of hard physical effort.
  1. Many months of back-breaking work still face them.
     他们还要面对很多个月的繁重工作。

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:arduousgruelinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

双语例句

• For decades, the number of farmers has been shrinking as a share of the population, and agriculture has often been seen as a backbreaking profession with little prestige.
  过去几十年来，美国农民占总人口的比例逐渐减少，务农通常被看做不体面的辛苦工作。
• And schools know that, if they want to get a better ranking, they need to spend money like mad even though they will have to increase tuition that is already backbreaking.
  这些学校知道，如果想要得到更靠前的排名，就需要疯狂地大笔撒钱，虽然这么做的结果是让原本已不堪重负的教学任务变得更加繁重。
• Much more wheat is needed to make bread, not to mention the backbreaking task of picking up loose seeds that tumble irritatingly to the ground.
  做面包需要更多的小麦，更别提还要累死累活的捡那些散落在地上的恼人的种子。
• But autumn also entails the backbreaking work of raking all those beautiful leaves once they fall.
  景色很美，在树叶落下的时候，正是秋季，搜集落叶这项繁重的任务也就是她所要承担的了。
• Her new "husband" communicated with her via hand gestures that he wanted her to do the backbreaking farm work and all the household chores.
  她的新任“丈夫”通过手势与她交流，他要求她做艰苦的农活以及所有的家务活。
• 88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed, the really challenging task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
  当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
• When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads bad been complete, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
  当西部铁路建设的申请和计划完成后，剩余的工作就是：那些关于实际建设铁路的危险、吃力、繁重并且喧嚷的商务事宜。
• They farm on seemingly vertical hillsides, terrace their fields nearly to the top of every available mountain, and plough by hand or with a draft animal – backbreaking work.
  他们在看起来近乎垂直的山坡上劳作，梯田几乎蜿蜒至每个可到达的高山山顶，他们自己动手犁地或是用畜力&繁重的劳作。
• Technology has advanced, the requirement for backbreaking toil has diminished.
  随着技术的进步，繁重的体力劳动需要减少了。
• Freelancer is a backbreaking Chongqing stick-man; the difference is that he hardly breaks a sweat even in a highly tiring state.
  自由翻译是辛苦的重庆棒棒，不同的是，再累也难得流下一滴汗水；