onerous

adj.

1. 费力的；艰巨的；令人焦虑的
   needing great effort; causing trouble or worry
   1. an onerous duty/task/responsibility
      繁重的义务 / 工作 / 职责

1. ADJ-GRADED （任务）繁重的，艰巨的，麻烦的
   If you describe a task as onerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant.
   1. ...parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child.
      曾经辛辛苦苦地养育过任性难缠的孩子的父母亲

1. The terms are too harsh ( or onerous) to accept.
   这条件太苛刻，没法接受。
2. Also, government loans are more likely to have onerous terms such as prepayment penalties.
   当然，政府贷款更可能包括一些繁苛的条款，比如说提前预付罚金。
3. The onerous nature of these and other COPPA provisions explains why social networks have tended to shun the young.
   COPPA的上述规定及其它条款繁琐复杂，这就使得社交网络都刻意避开年轻客户。
4. For better or worse, western countries are also engaged in this complex, onerous mission.
   无论后果是好是坏，西方国家也参与了这项复杂而艰巨的任务。
5. Many of you will be freed from onerous responsibilities for somebody or something.
   很多处处将从对某人或某事的繁重责任解脱出来。
6. I've disliked variable annuities for many years because of their high fees and onerous surrender penalties.
   我已经不喜欢可变年金多年，因为他们的高收费和繁琐的投降处罚。
7. More people of this calibre make dealing with government departments a pleasure and not an onerous task.
   希望更多像马女士这样的人让我们感到来政府部门办事很愉快，而不会觉得是让人头痛的问题。
8. The work is so onerous that I could hardly earn one minute from daytime for a rest!
   工作如此繁重，以至于白天很难有哪怕是一分钟的休息时间！
9. But it leaves the government with the even more onerous task of imposing effective regulation in future.
   但政府将面临甚至更为繁重的任务：在未来实施有效的监管。
10. The burden of impending European solvency 2 regulations on the insurance industry would become less onerous.
    即将对保险业实施监管的“欧盟偿付能力Ⅱ”的负担会变得不再那么繁重。
11. By automatically classifying MCG data, we can reduce the onerous manual work and find some useful rules.
    对MCG测量数据进行自动分类，可以减少人工分析，快速找出数据的有用规律。
12. After the recent introduction of onerous new obligations, they are likely to face more.
    在最近凭添了繁重的新任务之后，他们可能面对更多的考验。
13. In many countries planning restrictions have become more onerous since uranium's heyday in the1970s.
    在许多国家，自上世纪70年代铀全盛期以来，限制的实施业已变得更为艰难。
14. The proposed rules may be unrealistic as well as onerous. I got lost in your rather diffuse essay.
    草拟的规则也许不太现实而且冗赘。你的文章行文冗赘，弄得我有点糊涂了。
15. Finally, it makes existing bad debts less onerous on the balance sheet.
    最后，通胀将使资产负债表上的现有坏帐显得不那么繁重。
16. Recession, onerous interest payment schedules, and severe fiscal adjustment measures can quickly make debt levels unsustainable.
    不景气的经济、沉重的利息支出、艰巨的财政调整措施，都能让债务水平很快上升到难以为继的水平。
17. Cleaning them and maintaining them can be an onerous task because each material requires a different type of care.
    清洗和维护他们可以成为他们繁重的任务，因为每个材料需要不同类型的照顾。
18. She desired a fixed occupation-no matter how onerous, how irksome.
    她希望有个固定的职业，不管这个职业多么繁重，多么令人厌倦。
19. They say onerous requirements for passwords have given us a false sense of protection against potential attacks.
    他们认为密码过分的要求给了我们抵御潜在攻击的虚假的安全感。
20. To avoid onerous tax bills and tax hassles, try to confine any selling to your retirement accounts.
    为避免沉重的税金和复杂的税务问题，尽量把所有抛售都限制在退休账户中进行。
21. Burmese traders also confront onerous paperwork and working capital requirements to trade.
    缅甸交易商对繁冗的文件和贸易运营资本要求也十分抵触。
22. In Lehman's case they are proving almost unbearably onerous.
    在雷曼的例子中，他们证实了什么是不能忍受的麻烦。
23. While Chan was overloaded with work, his burden should not have been particularly onerous.
    他的另一位前上司在庭上说虽然他的工作量过多，但他的职责一直不是特别繁重。
24. But the scope and cost of data warehouse efforts were frequently onerous.
    但是数据仓库工作的范围和成本常常是巨大的。
25. Increasing demand is not an onerous duty. Consuming more is hardly a chore.
    扩大需求并非繁重的责任，增加消费也算不上苦差。
26. My household duties were not particularly onerous.
    我的家务活并不繁重。
27. Obviously, Groovy's first class support for closures makes some tasks that are onerous in Java a breeze.
    Groovy一流的闭包支持，让一些在Java中十分艰巨的任务变得轻而易举。
28. This is more onerous for the patient, but allows for a greater dietary variety.
    这给患者带来了更大的负担，但鉴于饮食应更加多样化也只能如此了。
29. It is an increasingly onerous cost of doing business here that many companies are finding harder to bear.
    这是在华经营中一项日益繁重的成本，许多企业都发现该成本越来越难以承受。
30. Literacy education will continue to be a period of time in the future Chinese education is quite onerous task.
    扫盲教育仍将是未来一段时间中国教育工作中相当繁重的任务。

adj

1. not easily borne
   1. the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return
   2. my duties weren't onerou
   3. a taxing schedule

   Synonym:    burdensometaxing