arduous

英['ɑ:djuəs]美['ɑ:djuəs]

a.
费力的，辛勤的，险峻的

副　词：ar'duously

同：	[a.] grueling, gruelling, straining, strenuous

His timidity disinclined him from such an arduous enterprise
他的怯懦使他不愿从事一项如此艰巨的事业。收藏
We next come to the extremely arduous task of determining and eliminating the extraneous reading produced by misalignment
下一步就要进行一项特别费力的工作，即确定和消除由于安装误差所产生的额外读数。收藏
I came away from those four arduous years at Yale tremendously enriched
在耶鲁苦读四年之后，我的学识获得了极大的充实。收藏
It must have been a very arduous task to build the pyramids.
当时建造金字塔肯定是件万分艰钜的事。收藏
You will not have to spend the next few days recovering from a long and arduous journey.
用不着因为漫长旅途的辛苦而花几天时间休息来恢复精神。收藏

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characterized by toilsome 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
[同] grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, arduous, backbreaking, operose, punishing, toilsome
taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
- his final, straining burst of speed
- a strenuous task
- your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here
[同] arduous, straining, strenuous

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