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gruelingly

/groo-uh-ling, groo-ling/US // ˈgru ə lɪŋ, ˈgru lɪŋ //

稀里哗啦地,稀里糊涂地,稀里哗啦,稀里哗啦的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any trying or exhausting procedure or experience.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhard

Examples

  • His summer training camps were both grueling and meticulous.

  • She applied to 28 schools and invested thousands of dollars into the process, which she described as “one of the most grueling periods” of her life.

  • The ten-kilometer skate climb in Val di Fiemme, Italy, is one of the most grueling courses on cross-country skiing’s World Cup circuit.

  • After a grueling two-week stretch with games every three or four days — including four opponents currently ranked in the top 15 — the Terps finally had a five-day layoff before Saturday’s game against Nebraska.

  • The first half-hour or so of Pieces of a Woman—directed by Kornél Mundruczó and starring Vanessa Kirby as a woman whose child dies just minutes after birth, and now streaming on Netflix—is so emotionally grueling that it’s almost unbearable.

  • Some might lack the fortitude—or masochism—required to endure a grueling campaign (Rubio).

  • In a grueling two-hour questioning, Carter provided testimony as to why the drug can be useful in pain management.

  • Jaguar scored epic wins at the grueling Le Mans 24-hour race.

  • In June 1909, Model Ts were two of the first three finishers in a grueling New York-to-Seattle rally.

  • After 15 hours of grueling interrogations, he was brought before judges and placed under formal investigation.

  • The trip promised to be perilous and fraught with danger, as well as grueling and full of hardships.

  • Stover, in the long grueling days of practice, had won the respect of all.

  • I had a grueling battle with him, and at the end of two hours and fifty minutes he broke my hook.

  • Not one day, scarcely one hour had been free of grueling labor.

  • For infantry as well as cavalry there is the same grueling routine.