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"
gruelling的用法和样例:
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用作形容词 (adj.)
To get a state licence, MSBs have to go through a gruelling vetting process. 为了得到州内执照,现金回款企业必须通过一段另人精疲力竭的审查过程。
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经典引文
Lendl's training programme is so gruelling that few people could keep up with it.