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arduous

/ahr-joo-uhs or, especially British, ahr-dyoo-/US // ˈɑr dʒu əs or, especially British, ˈɑr dyu- //UK // (ˈɑːdjʊəs) //

艰巨的,艰辛的,艰巨,艰辛

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
    • : requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous: making an arduous effort.
    • : hard to climb; steep: an arduous path up the hill.
    • : hard to endure; full of hardships; severe: an arduous winter.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.difficult, hard to endure

Examples

  • A harsh lockdown, one of the strictest in the world, created a humanitarian crisis of its own, pushing millions of migrant workers to take arduous journeys back home on foot.

  • When changes concern the matter of how we mark off our identities, though, any alteration would be extremely arduous and require more than education.

  • Smith played in his first game since his devastating injury, completing an arduous comeback and withstanding a brutal sack from Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

  • First, we didn’t try to stand up an entirely new educational program on our own, which almost certainly would be a long, arduous process that may not meet the differing needs of academic institutions around the world.

  • After seventeen surgeries, a life-threatening infection, a lost season and months of arduous rehab, Smith returned to the field in October.

  • It's slow and arduous and takes great concentration under the best of circumstances.

  • Bailey, who is also dating the director, said working on a Leigh production was incredibly arduous.

  • Even more striking are the courteous and collegial manners displayed, even during the arduous filibuster in the Senate.

  • Once the budget has been creatively handled, a director still faces the arduous task of casting.

  • The road to the Olympics is already long and arduous enough.

  • Indeed, 'we have laid upon him various arduous tasks touching the state of the country, and especially its tranquillity.'

  • But Samuel Adams, who thought "nothing should be despaired of," took upon himself the performance of this arduous task.

  • Sir Edward Bruce, after an arduous struggle, had taken a firm grip of Galloway by the end of 1308.

  • Nature seems still to wish to keep the young and blushing girl apart from that connection which entails grave and arduous duties.

  • Though Weston was more or less accustomed to the work, he found the first few hours sufficiently arduous.