backbreaking['bæk,breikiŋ]adj.1.■极其费劲的，辛苦的，累人的，使人劳累之极的，累断(人)腰背的
backbreaking
形容词 backbreaking:
characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
同义词：arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
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■Russian czar Nicholas the second laid the ceremonial first piece of track at the dedication in 1891.But the real backbreaking work was done by Russian peasants.
1891年，俄国沙皇尼古拉二世在开工仪式上放下了第一节轨道，但真正辛苦建造它的却是俄国的农民。
■88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed, the really challenging task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
88. 当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始； 即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
■88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed,the really challenging task remained: the dangerous,sweaty,backbreaking,brawling business of actually building the lines.
88. 当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
■Meanwhile her parents, who are forced to leave the riverbank where they have survived by growing vegetables and fishing, are shown carrying out the backbreaking labor of moving to a new location.
与此同时，她的父母被迫离开自己种菜捕鱼为生的江边家乡，他们艰难迁徙的过程也被展现出来。
■Much more wheat is needed to make bread, not to mention the backbreaking task of picking up loose seeds that tumble irritatingly to the ground.
为了做面包，需要的小麦更多；麦穗令人恼恨地掉落到地上，拾麦穗这件能把脊梁骨累断的苦差，不提也罢。
■To get these he needs a regular paying job that doesn't require backbreaking work in the fields.
为了得到这些，一个人需要稳定的收入而不是在地里辛劳的工作。
■Sheep shearing is often a backbreaking job, where thousands of kilograms of sheep meat are shifted every day.
他说：“老实说，首先是因为这个工作是艰苦的体力活。剪毛工的在职生涯年月有限。
■do sweated labour; do backbreaking work
做苦工
■As September arrived, I was still behind in the polls 59 to 23 percent after eight months of backbreaking work.
到了9月，民意调查显示我仍然落后，本来以前是落后59%，经过8个月艰苦繁重的工作，还是落后23%。
■One night I realized that I was in hell.Damp and misery at night, backbreaking work by day.
可工作也是非常辛苦的，一整天都要弯着腰，把葡萄从枝子上剪下来。
■After sleepless nights and long hours of backbreaking work, the prisoners were forced outside to attend roll-calls which lasted for hours.
在无数不眠之夜和长时间高强度工作之后,囚犯们还被迫进行几小时的露天点名。
■The Book of Exodus of the Old Testament says: "So the Egyptians enslaved the children of Israel with backbreaking labor.
在旧约出埃及记说：“因此，埃及人奴役与疲于奔命的以色列儿童。”
■Her new "husband" communicated with her via hand gestures that he wanted her to do the backbreaking farm work and all the household chores.
她的新任“丈夫”通过手势与她交流，他要求她做艰苦的农活以及所有的家务活。
■One can hardly wield a hoe or work stone or do any other type of backbreaking labor with a long pinky fingernail.
小指留着很长的指甲就很难使用锄头或石具或干其他类型的重活儿。
■Despite the exhausting, backbreaking drudgery in the cold rain and mud, morale among Japanese troops was exceptionally high.
尽管精疲力竭，在冷雨和泥浆中做着苦工，这支日本队伍中的士气还是异常高涨。
■Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.
巴菲特为他每小时工作才赚取十几美分的回报感到震动。
■" The labor demanded was backbreaking, monotonous, and unceasing.
强加于人们的工作沉重困苦、单调乏味而且没完没了。
■Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.Always nail down the specifics of a deal in advance -- even with your friends and relatives.
当人们向他提供一项业务或者投资项目的时候，他会立刻给出他的答案：“在他们没有给我一个价格前我是不会去考虑的。”
■When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm chores, he would be found reading a book.
当他应该帮助家里料理繁重的农活时，人们发现他正在念书。
■When the persuading and planning for the western railroads had been completed, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
当修建西部铁路的游说工作和规划完成后，繁重而危险的线路修建任务呈现在人们面前。
■When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm choas,he would be found reading a book.
当到了帮助农场做繁重的农活时，他正在读书。
■8. When it came time to help with the backbreaking farm chores, he would be found reading a book.
当到时候帮忙处理农场的辛劳杂务时，他却在读书。
■1. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had been completed, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
当劝说和计划西方铁路的任务已经结束时，在实际建造线路的工作中，危险的、汗流浃背、累断腰的争吵事件依然存在。
■1.When the persuading and planning for the western railroads had been completed,the task remained:the dangerous,sweaty,backbreaking,brawling business of actually building the lines.
当对西部铁路（工人）的劝说和安排完成时，（改造）任务依然存在：危险,闷热，艰苦繁重，争吵的工作充斥着了这条线路。
■88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had been completed, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.[/b
当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
■When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads bad been complete, the task remained: the dangerous，sweaty,backbreaking,brawling business of actually building the lines.
当西部铁路建设的申请和计划完成后，剩余的工作就是：那些关于实际建设铁路的危险、吃力、繁重并且喧嚷的商务事宜。
■1. When the persuading and planning for the western railroad had been completed,the task remained:the dangerous,sweaty,backbreaking,brawling business of actually the building the line.
当西部铁路的游说和计划工作完成时，剩下的就是危险，累人,争议不断的施工阶段了.
■She spoiled her own daughters while being rigor to the Cinderella,who's always be forced to deal with the backbreaking,dirty and tough works.
总是让灰姑娘做又累、又脏又重的活儿。
■Our son knows exactly who to go to when he's lost his favorite Babar book (mom) or wants to play a backbreaking game of airplane (dad).
我们的儿子却对他丢了他最喜欢的书应该找谁（当然是妈妈）或者想玩一场疲劳的飞机游戏该找谁（无疑是爸爸啦）知道的一清二楚。
■e.g. I got fed with this sort of tedious and backbreaking work．I am done with it．I quit!
我已厌烦透了这种无聊的辛苦的工作。到此为止。我辞职不干了!
■Given our backbreaking history, it is perhaps altogether natural to proceed in the belief that it will be enough to lift the weights from all men's shoulders.
既然人类的历史就是一部劳累的历史，那么只要能挪开压在肩上的重担便心满意足了，这样的想法也许自然极了。
■Sometimes I complained about what wasn't going well, like speeches I thought were long on rhetoric and short on argument and substance, or the backbreaking schedule that was more my fault than theirs.
有时候我会抱怨某事做得不好，比如我觉得演讲稿的华丽辞藻冗长，但却缺乏论点和内容，或者抱怨我自己造成的过于辛苦的行程安排。
■backbreaking work
极其繁重的体力劳动
■Once a week, Hayes motors out on a boat to cut a ton of kelp.He loads it on his truck, drives it back, then schleps it by boat again out to the abalones.It's backbreaking work.
海兹每周乘船出海一次，采割1吨重的海藻，然后装到货车上载回去，再用小船把海藻拖载去给鲍鱼吃，过程相当辛苦。
■To look after these children is really a backbreaking job.
照看这些孩子确实是一件非常累人的事。
■Looks easy at first but it's probably the most backbreaking jobs on site.
看起来很简单，但其实可能是施工现场最繁重的工作了。
■Their lack of water was not for want of backbreaking work in trying to find the stuff.
缺水的原因不是他们没有付出足够的努力。
■Digging the garden is a backbreaking job
翻整花园的地是件累人的活。
■Freelancer is a backbreaking Chongqing stick-man; the difference is that he hardly breaks a sweat even in a highly tiring state.
自由翻译是辛苦的重庆棒棒，不同的是，再累也难得流下一滴汗水；
■"backbreaking:Demanding great exertion, especially physical exertion; arduous and exhausting."
艰苦的:要求很大的努力,特别是身体的费力;艰苦的和使人筋疲力尽的。
■backbreaking adj.Demanding great exertion, especially physical exertion;arduous and exhausting.
艰苦的要求很大的努力，特别是身体的费力；
■88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had been completed, the task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.
译文：当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
■If they had the means, no one would still be willing to leave their families and travel far away for backbreaking work just to earn a little money.
这些天父亲的情况已经好转，他也就开始琢磨着怎样赚钱还债，以及给孩子交学费。
■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。
■It was tiring and backbreaking work.I sweat a lot, dirtied my glasses and watch.
这分类可真是件苦差，满身臭汗，眼镜和手表都弄脏了。
■That's backbreaking work and may be too much for us.
那是很累人的活,我们可干不了。
■Just Backbreaking work from sunup to sundown.
非常辛劳的。
■Some of them are as heavy as one ton.So just imagine, what a backbreaking work!
高的这边叫外墙，是敌人来犯的方向，矮的叫女墙，里面围绕着的就是古代中国了。