backbreaking

1 In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world.

2 It sounds very nice and pretty now to say “agrarian,” but the dark side of that was poverty and hunger and backbreaking labor for the vast majority of people.

3 Along with sugar and tobacco, rice demands intense, backbreaking labor.

4 Despite the constant, backbreaking work, she has a lighthearted and goofy spirit that enchants the Fab Five.

5 “The retailer community does backbreaking work to get comics into the hands of our loving fans,” he said.

6 But the film also shows how these meals are built from the ground up, and with backbreaking work.

7 For decades, the blue bloods around Park Avenue came here to pick up Americana, Asian decorative arts, English silverware and backbreaking amounts of heavy brown furniture.

8 Drawing on unprecedented research, Chang shows how these men performed some of the most dangerous, most backbreaking work to build out the railroad from California, yet received virtually no credit for their contributions.

9 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。

10 Still, there are many women who are interested in staying porters, a job that would benefit significantly from adequate health care, improved living conditions, and additional tools for easier transport so that the work isn’t so backbreaking.

11 As well as backbreaking mining toil, he carved chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood until his hands were raw and assembled car seat covers that the prison exported to South Korea and Japan.

除了做劳累至极的矿工之外，他还要把木板上切开，雕刻成筷子和牙签，直到他的双手刺痛，还要安装汽车座椅套，监狱则把这些出口到韩国和曰本。

12 I had never seen such enterprise before, such great machines, such methodical organization, and such backbreaking work.

13 For me, every step was an effort under the backbreaking load of my pack.

14 Recognizing our toughest problems and getting them in check is backbreaking work.

15 Work on sugar plantations was backbreaking, and treatment inhumane.

16 A New York story par excellence, Ben Ryder Howe’s “My Korean Deli” is a hilarious account of clashing cultures and backbreaking, soul-squeezing vocational juggling.

17 I can get maybe one- tenth of a cubic meter in through the airlock at a time, and it'll be backbreaking work to collect it.

18 After acknowledging Simplicio’s death and naming the waterfall after him, the men once again began the backbreaking job of building another portage.

19 It was an arduous, backbreaking task: hours of work to gather mere handfuls of rice.

20 Hot from the time I’d spent in the sun, I gulped it down, no longer thinking about the black men and their backbreaking work out in Grampa’s fields.

1 费力

hard stiff strenuous ponderous hardly try go to trouble

2 繁重的

heavy onerous

3 累人的

weighty tiring wearing punishing wearying taxing tiresome fiddly fiddling hardworked

4 费力的

hard stiff strenuous ponderous