backbreaking

1. ADJ-GRADED 累断腰的；繁重的
   Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
   1. Many months of back-breaking work still face them.
      他们还要面对很多个月的繁重工作。

1. Being an entrepreneur is a dirty, finger nail-breaking, hard, backbreaking, exhausting job.
   怎么说这都是一件苦差事。
2. 88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed, the really challenging task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
   当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
3. And schools know that, if they want to get a better ranking, they need to spend money like mad even though they will have to increase tuition that is already backbreaking.
   这些学校知道，如果想要得到更靠前的排名，就需要疯狂地大笔撒钱，虽然这么做的结果是让原本已不堪重负的教学任务变得更加繁重。
4. For decades, the number of farmers has been shrinking as a share of the population, and agriculture has often been seen as a backbreaking profession with little prestige.
   过去几十年来，美国农民占总人口的比例逐渐减少，务农通常被看做不体面的辛苦工作。
5. Much more wheat is needed to make bread, not to mention the backbreaking task of picking up loose seeds that tumble irritatingly to the ground.
   做面包需要更多的小麦，更别提还要累死累活的捡那些散落在地上的恼人的种子。
6. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads bad been complete, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
   当西部铁路建设的申请和计划完成后，剩余的工作就是：那些关于实际建设铁路的危险、吃力、繁重并且喧嚷的商务事宜。
7. These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
   这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。
8. Success would mean a childhood sacrifice but the reward& an escape from this that backbreaking life.
   成功意味着要牺牲掉童年的美好时光，但是回报是&摆脱掉累人的生活。
9. When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm__9__, he would be found reading a book.
   当到时候帮忙处理农场的辛劳杂务时，他却在读书。
10. Her new "husband" communicated with her via hand gestures that he wanted her to do the backbreaking farm work and all the household chores.
    她的新任“丈夫”通过手势与她交流，他要求她做艰苦的农活以及所有的家务活。
11. Freelancer is a backbreaking Chongqing stick-man; the difference is that he hardly breaks a sweat even in a highly tiring state.
    自由翻译是辛苦的重庆棒棒，不同的是，再累也难得流下一滴汗水；
12. They farm on seemingly vertical hillsides, terrace their fields nearly to the top of every available mountain, and plough by hand or with a draft animal – backbreaking work.
    他们在看起来近乎垂直的山坡上劳作，梯田几乎蜿蜒至每个可到达的高山山顶，他们自己动手犁地或是用畜力&繁重的劳作。
13. That's backbreaking work and may be too much for us.
    这可是累人的工作，我们可能负荷不了。
14. But autumn also entails the backbreaking work of raking all those beautiful leaves once they fall.
    景色很美，在树叶落下的时候，正是秋季，搜集落叶这项繁重的任务也就是她所要承担的了。
15. Technology has advanced, the requirement for backbreaking toil has diminished.
    随着技术的进步，繁重的体力劳动需要减少了。

adj

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
   1. worked their arduous way up the mining valley
   2. a grueling campaign
   3. hard labor
   4. heavy work
   5. heavy going
   6. spent many laborious hours on the project
   7. set a punishing pace

   Synonym:    arduousgruelinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome