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单词 gruelling
释义
gruelling
adjective
mainlyUK(USusuallygrueling)
uk
/ˈɡruː.ə.lɪŋ/us
/ˈɡruː.ə.lɪŋ/
extremelytiringanddifficult, anddemandinggreateffortanddetermination:
使人精疲力尽的；艰辛的；让人受不了的
Juniordoctorsoften have toworka gruelling 100-hourweek.资历较浅的医生经常必须承受艰巨的工作量，一周工作100小时。
Heeventuallywonthematchafter five gruelling sets.经过5局艰难的拼杀，他终于赢得了比赛。
Synonyms
arduous
backbreaking
hard
heavy
punishing
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Complicated and difficult to do
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  • tuff
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  • unsolved
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(Definition ofgruellingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgruelling

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Indeed, computer-based instruments, while requiring agruellingpractice to be mastered, can also be easily approached and help reveal one's inherent musicianship.
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By the 1830s, however, the solitude of walking was replaced by thegruellingcompetitive sports of rowing and, subsequently, rugby.
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Many of the workers who put in long hours ingruellingcircumstances were local authority employees.
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They have been under a heavy strain and have had agruellingtime.
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He would not attend when he saw thegruellingwork that had to be done.
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After sixgruellingyears, the sense of relief was universal.
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Because of them, the discussion was verygruelling, because they thought that we would overlook their products.
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They have had, as all of us are aware, a verygruellingsummer.
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They had a verygruellingtime in the war, and one must understand that an experience of that kind leaves its after-effects.
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These people had somegruellingexperiences less than 30 years ago, and they visualise the possibility of the same type of experience returning.
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It is true, as somebody said, that the people in this country have had a prettygruellingtime in this war.
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I know that it can be agruellingexperience.
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It has been a verygruelling12 years for him and the other relatives.
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The deployment wasgruelling, not very exciting and numbers had fallen.
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We have witnessed a cycle of despair, hope and renewed despair over many years withgruellingregularity.
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