英语释义

• characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

  "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"

  "a grueling campaign"

  "hard labor"

  "heavy work"

  "heavy going"

  "spent many laborious hours on the project"

  "set a punishing pace"

片语

exertive费力的，使努力的

backbreaking labour极其繁重的体力劳动

do backbreaking work做苦工

backbreaking work非常辛劳的工作

arduous努力的；费力的；险峻的

backbreaking job劳累的工作

英汉例句

• Others have tried similar programs. But, we「ve come a long way since the backbreaking work of the 1920s.

  其他公司也尝试过类似的福利政策，然而，从二十世纪20年代辛劳至极的工作到现在，我们已经走过了很长一段路。

• While his income from mining would sometimes 31 dwarf what he makes now, he enjoys not going through the 32 backbreaking work and long periods without income.

  虽然当时的采矿所得有时会让他如今的收入相形见拙，但他很享受现在这份并不繁重且不会长时间没有收入的工作。

• Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.

  巴菲特为他每小时工作才赚取十几美分的回报感到震惊。

• Their lack of water was not for want of backbreaking work in trying to find the stuff.

  缺水的原因不是他们没有付出足够的努力。

• To get these he needs a regular paying job that doesn」t require backbreaking work in the fields.

  为了得到这些，一个人需要稳定的收入而不是在地里辛劳的工作。

• As well as backbreaking mining toil, he carved chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood until his hands were raw and assembled car seat covers that the prison exported to South Korea and Japan.

  除了做劳累至极的矿工之外，他还要把木板上切开，雕刻成筷子和牙签，直到他的双手刺痛，还要安装汽车座椅套，监狱则把这些出口到韩国和曰本。

• 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。

• 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；

• And no one should want to sugar coat the tougher side of life here either, including long shifts at backbreaking jobs for low pay that is familiar to American workers.

  但并没人想体验那种包上糖衣的艰难的生活，包括像美国工人一样为了很低的薪水而长时间地干一些累人的工作。

• These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking Labour.

  这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。

• Success would mean a childhood sacrifice but the reward — an escape from this that backbreaking life.

  成功意味着要牺牲掉童年的美好时光，但是回报是——摆脱掉累人的生活。

• But the real reason was the backbreaking burden that the colonial masters imposed on the people for over 200 years.

  但是真正的原因是殖民者强加在人民身上，持续200年的不堪忍受的重负。

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burdensome繁重的；累赘的；恼人的

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