grueling

1. But as HP is learning, turning a tech giant around is a grueling process that can take years.
   但惠普公司的切身经历显示，重振一个科技巨头并非易事，可能需要多年的努力。
2. It can be even more grueling when the enterprise uses multiple, disparate systems.
   当企业使用多个完全异构系统时，问题会更加严重。
3. I can't make it up the grueling climbs with a lot of extra weight.
   我不可能带着多余的负重攀岩。
4. And 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.
   有8000万的中国高中生都已经参加过这个独木桥考试。
5. Over the years, he's endured dozens of surgeries and procedures, and hours of grueling rehab every day.
   这些年来，他每天经历很多个手术和治疗，并花数个小时做康复运动。
6. Instead, they got an extremely grueling eight-month static battle that saw hundreds of thousands of dead Allied and Ottoman forces.
   相反，结果带来的却是极其辛苦的长达八个月的静态战争，成千上万的盟军和奥斯曼军人在这场战争中牺牲了。
7. ( Applause.) After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs.
   （掌声）在多年的紧张的萧条期后，我们的商业已经创造了600万新的就业岗位。
8. When Diana was here, Shanghai was a pretty lucrative place to work. It was grueling the hours were long and conditions on the job weren't great but you could still make good money.
   戴安娜在的时候，上海还是一个非常有利可图的市场。模特一行确实很累人，需要一连工作数个小时，条件也不怎么好，但收入颇丰。
9. Many starved to death on the grueling journey to nearby Shaanxi Province.
   许多人在临近陕西省的路上饿死。
10. The 28-year-old actress trained for months for the grueling event.
    这位28岁的女星在参赛之前进行了为期数月的训练。
11. My body has held up to the test of time so far in this grueling sport of powerlifting.
    我的身体已经在这项极度疲劳的力量举运动中支撑了很久。
12. Sniper Shot: Do you have nerves of steel and a rock steady trigger finger to last through the grueling sniper tournament and prove your worth.
    你有钢铁般的意志和稳定的岩石引发手指最后通过艰苦的狙击手比赛，证明你的价值。手枪速射：就以世界上最伟大的军队在狙击手学院。
13. You went through a grueling screening process.
    这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
14. It is a period people in town simply refer to as "fresh," and it is grueling.
    小镇里的人称这段时间为“新鲜期”，这段时间的工作十分折磨人。
15. So part of the goal here is, this should not be a grueling, exhausting kind of task, it's really something that should be helping you learn the material.
    所以部分目标在于，这不应该是一个累赘，不是那种沉重的任务，它应该能帮助你，学习材料。
16. How would a man in the midst of such grueling competition act so joyously?
    在如此极度紧张的比赛中，一个人怎么能够显得这样兴高采烈？
17. The Hawaii Ironman is even more grueling.
    夏威夷铁人三项赛就更艰巨了。
18. At just 14 years old, Harry is three years too young to enter the grueling competition.
    在只有14岁，哈利是三年太年轻而无法进入使极度疲劳竞争。
19. He said in a statement issued by his production company that it was one of his most grueling shoots ever.
    他在他的制作公司发表的一个声明中说，这是一个他曾经经历的最辛苦的拍摄。
20. For a time, he had tried to convince himself that Fudge had indeed been a hallucination brought on by lack of sleep during his grueling election campaign.
    他一度确信福吉其实压根儿只是一个幻觉，经过紧张的竞选，他太缺乏睡眠了。
21. For the next grueling year, I'll be your homeroom teacher.
    在接下来辛苦的一年，我将是你们的班主任。
22. Yesterday, I had this grueling fight scene with Gary Oldman. I know that it would have been much more difficult to do if I wasn't in shape.
    昨天，我和盖瑞奥德曼有场激烈的打斗戏，我知道若我的身体不在状况中肯定很难办到。
23. Who could have ever imagined that I could find so many brothers in such a grueling and difficult competition, and who could have ever imagined that I could find my second home in China's Wuhan?
    谁会想到我能在这样残酷和艰难的比赛中找到那么多兄弟？谁会想到我能在中国的武汉找到第二个家？
24. His grueling schedule is just one not-so-subtle hint of what he expects from employees.
    他总是排得满满的日程，就不太隐晦地暗示出他对手下员工的期望。
25. The shoot was often grueling.
    拍摄过程是很劳累的。
26. The presentation of future plans had been a grueling work.
    制定这些计划是一项令人精疲力竭的工作。
27. We got home after a grueling drive.
    经过一段令人精疲力竭的开车我们到家了。
28. Florence Nightingale was doing this grueling work because it was vital, not because she had chosen it.
    这项辛劳的工作交给了弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔，并不是因为她主动请缨，而是这任务至关重要。
29. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is more grueling than Reynolds had reckoned.
    但是，丛林作战，特别是对日军熟悉地形的克钦邦，是更激烈了比雷诺兹计算。

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:    arduousbackbreakinggruellinghardheavylaboriousoperosepunishingtoilsome