backbreaking是什么意思？

backbreaking

英['bækˌbreɪkɪŋ] 美[ˈbækˌbrekɪŋ]

• adj. （体力劳动）艰苦繁重的，累死人的；

例句

• Digging the garden is a backbreaking job. 翻整花园的地是件累人的活.
• 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.
• 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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  累断腰的；繁重的
  Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
  例句
  Many months of back-breaking work still face them. 他们还要面对很多个月的繁重工作。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  (体力劳动)艰苦繁重的;累死人的
  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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. 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"