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词汇 heavy-going
释义 heavy going
adjective
uk /ˌhev.i ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ us /ˌhev.i ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/
difficult to read or understand: 难读的;难以理解的
I liked the film but the book was rather heavy going.我喜欢那部电影,但原书读起来却相当费劲。
find something heavy goingI'm finding the advanced physics a bit heavy going.我觉得高等物理有些难懂。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
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ambitiously
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formidable
formidably
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grail
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overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
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trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive

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heavy going
However, the topics dealt with are often esoteric methodological ones which will make the book heavygoing for all except a few specialist demographers.
Sometimes the venerability makes this book heavygoing.
The non-specialist may find the book's technical terms and subtle discourse heavygoing.
They will find it very heavygoing indeed.
Other unexplained technical terms make this chapter heavygoing, and even the text that attempts to link the mathematics to biology does not flow nor did it maintain my attention.
Indeed, he found it pretty heavygoing, to put it mildly.
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I think she is a great stayer in heavygoing.
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He could not understand them and found them heavygoing.
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They involve reading the basic economics books and learned journals which we all find heavygoing and full of disagreement.
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However, it was heavygoing following much of what he said.
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Unfortunately, this is very heavygoing.
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I should have liked to read all the evidence, much of it fascinating, but some is heavygoing and time did not allow me to read it all.
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That is pretty heavygoing.
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On the day, the race went ahead despite atrocious weather, with high winds and an extremely heavygoing.
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Although it is always entertaining, and rarely heavygoing, there is nothing whimsical about this book.
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