| 词汇 | herculean |
| 释义 | Herculean adjective uk /ˌhɜː.kjəˈliː.ən/ us /ˌhɝː.kjuˈliː.ən/ needing great strength and determination: 艰巨的，费力的；需要决心的 Herculean effortI sometimes feel so weak that even getting out of bed is a Herculean effort. Herculean taskShe faces the Herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.她面临着独自养育4个孩子的艰巨任务。 Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidable formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic problematic trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive unintuitive herculean | American Dictionaryherculean adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˌhɜr·kjəˈli·ən, hərˈkju·li·ən/ having or needing great strength or effort: She had the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly. Examples of HerculeanHerculean It took herculean efforts to survive the ordeal of fighting in such inhospitable space. The editors have made a herculean effort in realizing this volume which is destined to become a benchmark contribution in this field. The underlying scholarly labour has been herculean. I believe that the chairman of the committee and its members and the rapporteur have performed a similar, herculean, task. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English None the less, for all their herculean efforts, the vessel remained stranded for five days, and about 65,000 tonnes of oil has been spilt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He described the industry's task in meeting that target as herculean. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that his own efforts to assist us in the employment field have been herculean. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have mounted herculean efforts to provide the necessary support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have in front of us a herculean task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wish him well in his herculean task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have a herculean task in trying to paint a picture of these tremendous industries in half an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It proved a very complex and herculean task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The scale is great and increasing in greatness, and the refugee problem demands herculean efforts to tackle it adequately. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have made the domestic rate yield so large that the task of abolishing rates is even more herculean. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the present time the engineers and munition workers, in particular, are making herculean efforts to obtain the maximum production in war industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of Herculean 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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