词为我用 - arduous

词汇释义

arduous UK  /ˈɑː.dʒu.əs/ US  /ˈɑːr.dʒu.əs/

TEM8 IELTS 

adj, Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.困难的，艰巨的，费力的

外刊例句

1. "While this can feel like an arduous and lengthy part of the process, it is a great opportunity to align everyone's expectations as to what the partnership will specifically involve.(The Guardian)

2. But internally let's just get out of our seats and walk around the office and sort stuff out together informally by chatting and having meetings rather than sending long, long, long arduous emails".(The Guardian)

3. Some environmentalists aren't keen on the precedent it sets, but it feels like a sensitive development in the world heritage area that may change a few perceptions of how arduous Tassie's wilderness has to be for visitors.(The Guardian - Travel)

4. The Gang of Eight has agreed that their bill will provide these unfortunates not only with some sort of formal legal status, but also with the chance to become citizens eventually. Just how arduous that process is will be the main point of contention when the bill is unveiled.(The Economist)

5. But one correspondent, intrigued by the parallels between the two booms, put on stout boots, packed a copy of "The Age of Gold" and set off for Williston. For the '49ers as the men who hurried west in that year became known the trek to California was arduous.(The Economist)

6. She and her co-winner, Kailash Satyarthi, campaign for children's rights to be educated, and not forced into arduous labour.(The Economist)

7. Imparting skills will remain arduous, so long as South Africa's schools and universities turn out hordes of semi-literate arts graduates and hardly any black engineers or accountants. Redistributive "black empowerment" has made a few black South Africans honkingly rich overnight.(The Economist)

8. American power plants have already reduced their emissions by 15% since 2005, so requiring them to cut the same amount over a longer period is not too arduous.(The Economist)

9. The worst outcome, critics say, would be arduous rules that do little to improve food safety. Nevertheless, a new law now seems inevitable.(The Economist)

10. But making a discrimination claim is an arduous and lengthy process.(The Economist)

11. If the euro zone and IMF wanted to avoid lending more billions to Greece, private creditors would have to take much bigger losses. So alongside the bad-tempered bargaining among politicians, there was an equally arduous negotiation with Greece's creditors.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

arduous  journey, process, task, trek, voyage, work

词汇来源

1530s, "hard to accomplish, difficult to do, attended with much labor," from Latin arduus "high, steep," also figuratively, "difficult, hard to reach," from PIE root *eredh- "high" (see ortho-). Literal sense of "high, steep, difficult to climb" is attested in English from 1709. Related: Arduously; arduousness.

近义词

challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy, rigorous, strenuous, tough

反义词

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