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strenuous

/stren-yoo-uhs/US // ˈstrɛn yu əs //UK // (ˈstrɛnjʊəs) //

费力的,费力,吃力,艰苦

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
    • : demanding or requiring vigorous exertion; laborious: To think deeply is a strenuous task.
    • : vigorous, energetic, or zealously active: a strenuous person; a strenuous intellect.

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Examples

  • The National Weather Service has already put out an alert to advise people from doing strenuous activities in the hottest hours of the day and to stay extra hydrated.

  • There’s excellent hiking around Lake Atitlán, too, including a strenuous four-mile jaunt to the summit of Volcán San Pedro, at 9,908 feet.

  • This is a more strenuous hike that will test your limits, but you’ll get a good variety of solo hiking as well as some populated areas and campsites, if you’re in need of some emergency socialization.

  • Electric mowers are much, much lighter than their gas-guzzling brothers, so a push mower may not be as strenuous to operate as you think.

  • This one is 2 inches taller than most conventional toilets, making it easier and less strenuous to sit and do your business.

  • His body has endured harsh heat and constant strenuous activity.

  • Endorphins are released during sex, just as they are during a strenuous workout.

  • But a glitch has the video stuck in permaload mode and my patience is running thin after that strenuous hour of “math”.

  • Socratic dialogue during strenuous exercise: take that, effete philosophers!

  • She saw women carrying firewood, and how long it took, how strenuous, and the effect it was having on their health.

  • A strenuous worker, Mr. Johnstone, like most men who have no hobby, did not long survive his retirement from active business life.

  • The strenuous efforts made by the Spaniards to secure their release are fully referred to in Chap.

  • Christianity has been for fifteen hundred years the religion of the brilliant, brave, and strenuous races in the world.

  • Philip Livingston, a signer and a strenuous advocate for the declaration of independence, died.

  • That is, Gaston greatly desired it; but this desire yielded to his wife's strenuous opposition.