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backbreaking

/bak-brey-king/US // ˈbækˌbreɪ kɪŋ //UK // (ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ) //

艰苦卓绝的工作,艰辛的工作,艰苦的工作,艰苦卓绝

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : demanding great effort, endurance, etc.; exhausting: a backbreaking job.

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Examples

  • Signs of the toxic and backbreaking work the enslaved had to do at the primitive ironmaking site emerged.

  • Advocates for robotic farming tout increased automation as a step toward improving efficiency while freeing people from monotonous, backbreaking tasks that few laborers want to do.

  • Today, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze.

  • According to political lore, patriot-Americans do the backbreaking work that keeps the country humming.

  • It will take some backbreaking investigation to get the whole story, because the files show nothing on any of them.

  • All they had to look forward to from the D'zertanoj was backbreaking labor and an early death.

  • The combination of heat, hard, backbreaking work, and the necessity for hurry made haying a particularly fatiguing time.