| 词汇 | backbreaking |
| 释义 | backbreaking adjective uk /ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/ us /ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/ needing a lot of hard, physical effort and making you feel extremely tired: 极费力气的；累人的 Digging the vegetable garden was backbreaking work.给菜园松土是很累人的活儿。 Synonyms arduous gruellingmainly UK hard heavy punishing Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling gruellingly onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic problematic trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive unintuitive backbreaking | American Dictionarybackbreaking adjective us/ˈbækˌbreɪ·kɪŋ/ very tiring or needing a lot of physical energy: Digging a trench is backbreaking work. Examples of backbreakingbackbreaking It is described there as intensive farming requiring the backbreaking, delicate, and labour-consuming work of mid-growth weeding. There have not been those heart-breaking, backbreaking burdens sometimes represented from the opposite benches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In practice, however, it was inefficiently managed, and the tenants and their families worked long, backbreaking hours for minimal rewards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If technology allows us to achieve the necessary national output without seven days a week of backbreaking work, let us have earlier retirement and a shorter working week. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Farmers engaged in backbreaking and ill-rewarded toil cannot afford to employ someone to keep down fox numbers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After the first years of backbreaking work cultivating the land, the first crops were harvested and prosperity came to the region. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Three weeks following germination, the 6-8 inch stalks are picked and replanted at greater separation, in a backbreaking manual procedure. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their backbreaking labor in factories, stockyards, and construction sites fueled the citys growth, its grand buildings and successful companies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Laborers received 40 cents per hour for performing backbreaking labor on the roadbed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Over a month of backbreaking, sweat-drenched labor a campsite was cleared tents rose and reasonably comfortable camp life became possible. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It was backbreaking work; one of the men recalled it as the hardest kind of manual labor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like so many in this category, he came up the hard way through backbreaking work, thrift, and determination. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The task of shoveling and distributing the manure was backbreaking and there were many attempts made to mechanize this process. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Irrigation was and continues to be backbreaking hard work. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But life was more than just the backbreaking work of picking cotton and tilling the vegetable patch. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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