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单词 backbreaking
释义
backbreaking
adjective
uk
/ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/us
/ˈbækˌbreɪ.kɪŋ/
needinga lot of hard,physicaleffortand making youfeelextremelytired:
极费力气的；累人的
Digging thevegetablegardenwas backbreakingwork.给菜园松土是很累人的活儿。
Synonyms
arduous
gruellingmainlyUK
hard
heavy
punishing
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(Definition ofbackbreakingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

backbreaking| American Dictionary

backbreaking
adjective
us
/ˈbækˌbreɪ·kɪŋ/
verytiringorneedinga lot ofphysicalenergy:
Digging atrenchis backbreakingwork.
(Definition ofbackbreakingfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is described there as intensive farming requiring thebackbreaking, delicate, and labour-consuming work of mid-growth weeding.
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There have not been those heart-breaking,backbreakingburdens sometimes represented from the opposite benches.
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This includes easing the third world'sbackbreakingburden of debt.
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In practice, however, it was inefficiently managed, and the tenants and their families worked long,backbreakinghours for minimal rewards.
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If technology allows us to achieve the necessary national output without seven days a week ofbackbreakingwork, let us have earlier retirement and a shorter working week.
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Farmers engaged inbackbreakingand ill-rewarded toil cannot afford to employ someone to keep down fox numbers.
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After the first years ofbackbreakingwork cultivating the land, the first crops were harvested and prosperity came to the region.
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Three weeks following germination, the 6-8 inch stalks are picked and replanted at greater separation, in abackbreakingmanual procedure.
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Theirbackbreakinglabor in factories, stockyards, and construction sites fueled the citys growth, its grand buildings and successful companies.
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Laborers received 40 cents per hour for performingbackbreakinglabor on the roadbed.
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Over a month ofbackbreaking, sweat-drenched labor a campsite was cleared tents rose and reasonably comfortable camp life became possible.
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It wasbackbreakingwork; one of the men recalled it as the hardest kind of manual labor.
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Like so many in this category, he came up the hard way throughbackbreakingwork, thrift, and determination.
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The task of shoveling and distributing the manure wasbackbreakingand there were many attempts made to mechanize this process.
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Irrigation was and continues to bebackbreakinghard work.
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