词为我用 - gruelling

词汇释义 

gruelling  TEM8   GRE

UK  /ˈɡruː.ə.lɪŋ/ US  /ˈɡruː.ə.lɪŋ/

adj, A gruelling activity is extremely difficult and tiring to do. 累垮人的，艰难的，令人筋疲力尽的

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外刊例句 

1. The promotions were announced on Thursday, after weeks of a grueling internal vetting process.(New York Times)

2. The work was so grueling that I eventually developed a muscle spasm in my back and was forced to stop working for three months in order to recover from my injury.(Time)

3. On the grueling missions, pilots wear spacesuits, breathing from an oxygen tank and eating and drinking everything through a straw.(Los Angeles Times)

4. After about a year of pushing – attending grueling trade shows, succumbing to painful terms and worst of all, hard-selling our product line — we decided to call it quits with traditional wholesale.(Forbes)

5. Usually after several years of grueling internecine political warfare, back-stabbing colleagues and gerrymandering the organization. (Forbes)

6. "It's really grueling right now but I think everyone will be happy once it's done."(Los Angeles Times)

7. And Sansa will be the leader she’s been becoming for five grueling seasons, trained in the terrible fire of tragedy and abuse, to lead the North to victory over its enemies.(Forbes)

8. There are thousands of these physical challenges for charity each year, from walks, runs and rides to more grueling or even silly events, most of them in the summer.(New York Times)

9. But the early numbers point to a grueling struggle for year-end sales among the nation’s retailers, Mr. Shay acknowledged.(New York Times)

10. For a certain type of hard-charging professional, boxing became a natural complement to a grueling work schedule.(New York Times)

11.The author also recalls his childhood in Alaska, his grueling preparation to become a Seal and other previously unreported Seal missions.(New York Times)

12. If so, most economists expect the German economy at least to rebound after a grueling third quarter as confidence revives.(Reuters)

词汇搭配 

gruelling work, mission, journey, process, race, schedule, test, tour, trek, workout

词汇家族

gruel, gruelingly

词汇来源 

also grueling, "exhausting, punishing," 1852, present-participle adjective from gruel (v.) "to punish," from late 18c. slang get (or have) one's gruel "receive one's punishment," from gruel (n.).

近义词 

arduous, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, hard, heavy, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, sweaty, tough

反义词 

easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding, unchallenging