backbreaking

英 [ˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋ]

美

adj. 累断腰的; 繁重的

现在分词：backbreaking　

TEM8

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 累断腰的；繁重的
Back-breakingwork involves a lot of hard physical effort.
1. Many months of back-breaking work still face them.
  他们还要面对很多个月的繁重工作。

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:arduousgruelinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome

双语例句

For decades, the number of farmers has been shrinking as a share of the population, and agriculture has often been seen as a backbreaking profession with little prestige.
过去几十年来，美国农民占总人口的比例逐渐减少，务农通常被看做不体面的辛苦工作。
Technology has advanced, the requirement for backbreaking toil has diminished.
随着技术的进步，繁重的体力劳动需要减少了。
Being an entrepreneur is a dirty, finger nail-breaking, hard, backbreaking, exhausting job.
怎么说这都是一件苦差事。
These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。
They farm on seemingly vertical hillsides, terrace their fields nearly to the top of every available mountain, and plough by hand or with a draft animal – backbreaking work.
他们在看起来近乎垂直的山坡上劳作，梯田几乎蜿蜒至每个可到达的高山山顶，他们自己动手犁地或是用畜力&繁重的劳作。
When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm__9__, he would be found reading a book.
当到时候帮忙处理农场的辛劳杂务时，他却在读书。
Success would mean a childhood sacrifice but the reward& an escape from this that backbreaking life.
成功意味着要牺牲掉童年的美好时光，但是回报是&摆脱掉累人的生活。
But autumn also entails the backbreaking work of raking all those beautiful leaves once they fall.
景色很美，在树叶落下的时候，正是秋季，搜集落叶这项繁重的任务也就是她所要承担的了。
That's backbreaking work and may be too much for us.
这可是累人的工作，我们可能负荷不了。
And schools know that, if they want to get a better ranking, they need to spend money like mad even though they will have to increase tuition that is already backbreaking.
这些学校知道，如果想要得到更靠前的排名，就需要疯狂地大笔撒钱，虽然这么做的结果是让原本已不堪重负的教学任务变得更加繁重。