herculean

[.hə:kju'li:ən]

adj. 力大无比的, 极费力的
Herculean
adj. [希神]赫拉克勒斯的

例句与用法：

Digging the canal was a Herculean task.

开凿运河是项极其艰巨的工程。

a.

1. (H-)赫拉克勒斯的

2. 力大无比的; 骁勇无比的

3. 至难的; 费力的

herculean

herculean

形容词 herculean:

displaying superhuman strength or power

同义词：powerful

extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules

herculean

■Potter turns away, and it is clear that his voice is lowered only through Herculean effort. "I need to know," he says, "whether you're really remembering or just? Imagining.

Potter转过身去,他好像很使劲儿才说得出话,声音那么的低沉。“我需要知道,“他说,“你到底是真的想起来了,还是只是在瞎想。

■Instead of choosing a goal that would require herculean efforts, choose a goal that is more realistic for your circumstances.

与其选择一个需要巨大努力才能完成的目标，不如选择一个对你的现状来说比较现实的目标。

■The central government is taking the first tentative swipes at what will amount to a Herculean task.

中央政府已经采取开始性的试探性步骤，将发展为赫拉克勒斯的巨大任务。

■Cowperwood,after his Herculean labours of the morning,had,as has been said,driven rapidly to Butler's house.

之前已经说过，柯柏乌上午大干一阵以后，就赶忙驾车到巴特勒家去了。

■What was the meaning of this so steady and self-respecting， this small Herculean labor， I knew not.

今夜，我的笛声又唤醒了这同一湖水的回声。

■His Herculean efforts came at a cost though as a booking picked up in the game meant he was suspended for the final, ensuring he missed United's greatest day in his time at the club.

他为自己在本场比赛中的巨大努力付出了吃到黄牌并不得不缺席决赛的代价。这使得他缺席了自己曼联生涯中最伟大的一天。

■They have taken on a Herculean task.

他们承担了一件极困难的任务。

■Each and every muscle on his herculean physique vibrates. -Bro-therrr! Ohh...what a mess of muscles!

他力大无比的体形上的每块和所有肌肉都会颤动。-好家伙！哦...肌肉真多！

■He completed the translation of this monumental work with a herculean effort.

他历尽心血终于完成了这一成本大套的翻译作品。

■But undertaking a renovation can be a Herculean task.

但做翻修工作却可能是一项异常艰巨的任务。

■But persuading large swathes of the citizenry to spend less time watching sport on television and more time actually working up a sweat is a Herculean task.

但是劝说老百姓少看点电视体育比赛，多花点时间进行真正的体育运动是一项艰巨的任务。

■Nevertheless, the thickness of the shield is still uneven but it is a Herculean task to resolve the issue.

但毕竟这祇是边沿的错觉，盾背的厚薄不一问题始终没有解决。

■make herculean efforts

作极其巨大的努力

■herculean strength

其大无比的力气

■I was interested in the Supreme Courts herculean effort to reconcile conflicting convictions about law, morality, and life.

其实让我感兴趣的主要是最高法院对相互冲突的法律、道德和生活理念所进行的艰巨的调解工作。

■Therefore, it is a Herculean and long-term task for plant breeding workers to cultivate the germplasms of resistance to these factors.

因此，培育抗病、抗虫和抗逆的作物品种是育种工作者长期而艰巨的任务。

■For greedy John, to lose weight is a Herculean task.

对于贪吃约翰来说，要减轻体重的确是一件困难的事情。

■Then scientists may finally realize their dream of creating a quantum machine that can tackle Herculean tasks once thought to be impossible.

届时，科学家终将能实现梦想，创造出威力无比的量子机器，达成以往无法完成的梦想。

■To mold a front against the Japanese, however, was a task of Herculean proportions.

建立抗日阵线是一项无比艰巨的任务。

■1. Digging the canal was a Herculean task.

开凿运河是项极其艰巨的工程。

■When everything is working together, including the beams colliding at the center of each detector, the task faced by the detectors and the data-processing systems will be Herculean.

当所有东西同时运转起来，粒子束也开始在每个侦测器的中央对撞时，侦测器以及资料处理系统所面临的任务将会至为艰难。

■That must have been an absolutely Herculean task right there, considering that the responses number in the thousands, and Jack is apparently out of town.

想必那是一个艰巨的任务， 就数以千计的回复而言，杰克似乎不在实验室。

■With our second-half performances this season being less than convincing, it took a Herculean effort by the ten men to hang onto all three points.

我们下半场的表现可能不那么令人信服，但那是10人花了极大的气力才坚持到最后并拿到三分的。

■Digging this tunnel seems to be a herculean task.

挖掘这座隧道似乎是一项艰钜的任务。

■The herculean task of eradicating AIDS has consumed efforts of a generation of human beings, and is yet to entail assiduous endeavors of the generations to come.

昨天是世界艾滋病日，早早地我就看到一队中大的学生绕着大学城内环跑步宣传，他们边跑边喊口号：预防艾滋病，你我同努力。

■Another greybeard, known as the Wise Old Man, laughed at him, saying “How foolish you are!It's absolutely impossible for you handful persons to accomplish such a herculean task”.

有个老头子名叫智叟的看了发笑，说是你们这样干未免太愚蠢了，你们父子数人要挖掉这样两座大山是完全不可能的。

■Some tasks, at first glance, may seem simply overwhelming or require a Herculean amount of effort, so in term we don't do anything, at all.

有些任务，乍一看，感觉是无法实现的，或是需要莫大的努力，于是就导致我们竟然就什么都没做。

■Du said he hopes Mother Nature pitches in to assist city officials with their Herculean task.

杜(此处疑为杨)说他希望社会各界协力帮助政府官员完成这一极其艰巨的任务。

■Eradication of the Alpine nomenclature is still proving a Herculean task.

根除阿尔卑斯命名法依然是一项极其艰难的工作。

■Though the little grass has never been said to be Herculean ， the power it shows is matchless in the world.It is an invisible force of life .So long as there is life， the forces will show itself.

没有一个人将小草叫做“大力士”，但是它的力量之大最有效的增高，的确是世界无比。

■Though the little grass has never been said to be Herculean , the power it shows is matchless in the world.It is an invisible force of life .So long as there is life, the forces will show itself.

没有一个人将小草叫做“大力士”，但是它的力量之大，的确是世界无比。

■Yet it might not be too Herculean a task to raise the money-if some Chinese banks are ordered to cough up the funds.

然而，如果部分中国银行被要求进行融资的话，那筹集到那笔钱可能并不是什么费力的事情。

■Wang ticked through the first two innings without allowing a baserunner.So instead of the offense feeling as if it would need a Herculean effort to get a win, the game remained scoreless.

王小民投完前2局没有让任何一个人站上垒包，所以虽然(洋基)打者感觉好像他们需要有巨大无比的努力才能赢球，这场比赛还是维持0比0。

■These days, just finding an easy to remember one-word domain name can be a Herculean task.

现在这个时代，找一个容易记的单词汇的域名已经变得很困难了。

■Life is like a game. Following the rules, you are advantageous, and disobeying them, you may find the Herculean's tasks are on the horizon.

生活像是一场游戏。遵循定规，你就富有优势；违反规则，你可能发现巨大的挑战即将出现于视野的地平线。

■Science means honest, solid knowledge, allowing not an iota of false-hood, and it involves Herculean efforts and grueling toil.

科学是老老实实的学问,来不得半点虚假,需要付出艰巨的劳动。

■Science means honest，solid knowledge，allowing not an iota of false-hood，and it involves Herculean efforts and grueling toil.

科学是老老实实的学问，来不得半点虚假，需要付出艰巨的劳动。

■1.Science deals with things in a practical way.Science means honest,solid knowledge,allowing not an iota of falsehood,and it involves herculean efforts and gruelling toil.

科学源于实践，科学意味着真诚地，坚实的知识。来不得一点虚假，而且需要巨大的努力和极尽全力的辛苦工作。

■a herculean tast

艰巨的任务

■a herculean task

艰巨的任务.

■a Herculean labour

艰巨的劳动

■'These herculean things,' including slashing inventories, were done to 'make sure that the company survives,' Mr.Sadove said in an interview.

萨多夫接受采访时说，公司之所以采取清仓等极端的措施，是为了确保能够生存下去。

■The Herculean task of removing 10 million gallons of viscous crude that gushed into Alaska's Prince William Sound will take months ,perhaps years ,and may cost upward to million dollars.

要清除100万倾覆在阿拉斯加威廉太子湾上的粘稠原油，真是工程艰巨。不但要花上好几个月，而且投下的经费可能高达2亿5000万美元。

■The consortium began its Herculean task by looking at supply chain processes.

该联盟从研究供应链的过程入手开始这个艰巨的任务。

■strain oneself to the limit; use every ounce of one's strength; make herculean efforts

费了九牛二虎之力

■The more than Herculean task which is now at last completed began with the appointment of the Statutory Commission in 1927.

这一始于1927年指定法律委员会的艰巨无比的任务终于完成了。

■2 The two men made a Herculean effort to lift the fallen tree off the victim's car.

这两个人为了 搬掉倒在受害者汽车上的树花出了巨大的力气。

■The two men made a Herculean effort to lift the fallen tree off the victim's car.

这两个人为了搬掉倒在受害者汽车上的树花出了巨大的力气。

■-- The collision chambers are herculean in scale.

这个隧道是世上最大的电冰箱。

■These small feats seemed like Herculean accomplishm ents and slowly served to restore her depleted confidence.

这些小成绩看来是艰辛努力的结果，而且渐渐开始重建起她那已空竭的信心。