gruelling

英 [ˈɡruːəlɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡruːəlɪŋ]

adj.  使人筋疲力尽的; 折磨人的

Collins.1 / BNC.14611 / COCA.44115

牛津词典

adj.

• 使人筋疲力尽的；折磨人的
  very difficult and tiring, needing great effort for a long time
  1. a gruelling journey/schedule
     使人筋疲力尽的旅程；累人的日程安排
  2. I've had a gruelling day.
     我一天下来累得筋疲力尽。

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 grueling


• ADJ-GRADED 累垮人的；艰难的；令人筋疲力尽的
  Agruellingactivity is extremely difficult and tiring to do.
  1. He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week...
     完成上周紧张的日程安排后，他抱怨自己累得筋疲力尽。
  2. This flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
     这次飞行比我预想的更累！

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:arduousbackbreakinggruelinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

双语例句

• For the next decade Espinosa endured gruelling chemotherapy, had his leg amputated, lost a lung and had part of his liver removed.
  接下来的十年埃斯皮诺萨忍受着痛苦的化疗，他的腿被截肢，失去了肺，部分肝脏被切除。
• He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week
  完成上周紧张的日程安排后，他抱怨自己累得筋疲力尽。
• The Wales midfielder suffered a double fracture to his right leg at Stoke in February and has spent the past eight months on a gruelling rehabilitation programme.
  二月在斯托克这位威尔士中场遭遇右腿胫骨腓骨双重骨折，过去八个月他一直在漫长痛苦的恢复过程中。
• He was plagued by self-doubt, and a gruelling schedule of touring and recording only exacerbated his increasing dependency on drugs.
  他被对自我的怀疑不断缠扰。而叫人疲惫不堪的巡回演出、音乐录制的日程安排只能加剧他不断对毒品的依赖。
• A gruelling climb, race, trial, ordeal, etc.
  使人筋疲力竭的攀登、竞赛、审讯、考验等。
• Mourinho took his charges for a gruelling tour of the US earlier this summer and on Wednesday they will face SPL champions Celtic, ahead of this weekend's Community Shield clash with Liverpool.
  结束了美国之行，老穆要面对苏超冠军凯而特人的热身挑战，随后与利物浦打响社区盾杯决战。
• The professor found as soon as we hear words like "tormenting"," gruelling "or" plaguing", the exact areas in the brain that deal with pain are activated.
  教授还发现，只要我们听到类似痛苦的、折磨人的、苦恼的的词汇，大脑中的这个相关区域就立刻被激活。
• A return to lower compensation would also hit hard in a world where bankers have grown used to working gruelling hours and changing employers regularly.
  银行家们已经习惯于长期劳累地加班和定期更换员工，因此向更低薪酬的回归还会对银行业造成重大冲击。
• A British leukaemia patient rolled into Sydney after a gruelling fundraising ride on a vintage penny farthing bicycle across the Australian outback.
  为了给患有白血病的孩子募捐，英国白血病患者劳埃德·斯科特骑异形自行车成功穿越了澳大利亚沙漠地带，并于12月2日到达目的地悉尼。
• He kept up with the gruelling casework, particularly in a course called Human Organization and Behavior.
  他不断做好累人的社会工作，尤其是涉及人类组织和行为这一课程。