backbreaking
- adj.繁重的;累断腰的
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- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;especially physical effort
- worked their arduous way up the mining valley
- a grueling campaign
- hard labor
- heavy work
- heavy going
- spent many laborious hours on the project
- set a punishing pace
- Synonym: arduous grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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But when the construction of a new road made his effort unnecessary , he still chose to continue the gruelling , backbreaking work for several years .
然而,当新路修成,他的工作成了徒劳之后,施密特仍然选择继续挖掘。
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Meanwhile , backbreaking toil both in the workplace and in the home was for the most part replaced by far less onerous employment .
同时,无论是在工作场所,还是家庭生活中,繁重的劳作大多被相对轻松的工作所代替。
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Being an entrepreneur is a dirty , finger nail-breaking , hard , backbreaking , exhausting job .
怎么说这都是一件苦差事。
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At the crack of dawn , he would run up the slopes with his skis on , an unbelievably backbreaking activity .
在黎明刚刚来临时,他就带着滑雪板跑上山,这是令人难以置信的劳累活动。
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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。
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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;
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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Then , Shun recruited Yu , Gun , s son , to continue the work . Spending a backbreaking thirteen years and bypassing his house three times but never going in , Yu dredged new river channels as outlets , guiding water to river and river to sea .
舜又命鲧之子禹治水,禹“居外十三年,过家门不敢人”,用疏导法治水,导小水入于川,导川水致于海。