Arduous

(adj.) difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; 'the arduous work of preparing a dictionary' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; 'his final, straining burst of speed'; 'a strenuous task'; 'your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here'- F.D.Roosevelt .

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• What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Arduous work was at once resumed at home on duplex and quadruplex telegraphy, just as though there had been no intermission or discouragement over dots twenty-seven feet long. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The duties of kingship among the anthropoids are not many or arduous. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The task was an arduous one and required the better part of a month, though he built but one small room. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The troops now went to work to make themselves comfortable, and to enjoy a little rest after their arduous campaign. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The spending of three and four arduous nights a week in these trenches by Mr. Edison and his associates suggests the rigor of the later European warfare. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Each felt, that England had never seen a Protector so capable of fulfilling the arduous duties of that high office. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yours, said he, is an arduous calling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Do you know how long it has taken me (allowing for a long and arduous training) to earn such a sum? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking; but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• He undertook, therefore, the arduous task of persuading the young ladies to favour the company with an air--a song. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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