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单词 challenging
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challenging
(ælɪndʒɪŋ )
1. adjective
A challenging task or job requires great effort and determination.
Mike found a challenging job as a computer programmer.
I'm ready to do all those things which are more challenging.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you do something in a challenging way, you seem to be inviting people to argue with you or compete against you in some way.
Mona gave him a challenging look.
Collocations:
challenging climate
He said it could also help homeowners whose cheap fixed-rate mortgages run out this year - though 2008 would remain a 'challenging climate'.
The Sun
Within this very challenging climate and short timeline, we have all worked hard to maintain program integrity and support our students.
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Throughout the world many offshore companies are facing tough times in challenging climates and waters.
Times, Sunday Times
challenging conditions
Its pest control business's operating profits edged up by 1.2 per cent to 32.6 million in what the group called 'challenging conditions'.
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The group had deliberately chosen that stretch of river because of the challenging conditions after heavy rain and were not caught by surprise.
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But possibly the most challenging conditions were in 1935.
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Within property management, underlying revenues fell by almost 6 per cent because of inevitably challenging conditions in the sector.
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The real differences became apparent when they were assessed under more challenging conditions.
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challenging course
It was a challenging course that focused on hard skills rather than the glamour and greasepaint of performance.
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This challenging course varies from the long open fairways of the front nine to a back nine that twists and turns through trees and across lakes and streams.
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You'll enjoy the serious side of life on a day you make an important breakthrough at work, or sign up for a challenging course.
The Sun
The steep hills are part of the distinctive and challenging course, which boasts over 1200 feet of elevation gain (and loss) over its four miles.
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While striving for academic excellence and growth, students are encouraged to balance a challenging course load with extra-curricular involvement.
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challenging environment
They have continued to increase earnings and provide good dividend yields despite the challenging environment.
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Faced with this challenging environment, investors are expected to reward companies that continue growing their earnings.
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Graduates who entered the job market in 2008 faced a challenging environment compared with students who graduated a few years earlier.
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He said that language in the unit was robust and profanities tolerated because of the challenging environment they worked in.
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Total described it as 'a uniquely challenging environment but with great potential'.
The Sun
challenging experience
After all, it takes a particular kind of grit to take on this challenging experience as well as the day job.
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If, however, you want a challenging experience that will teach you self-reliance and send you home smarter and tougher, here's our pick of the best adventures for 2015/16.
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The country's oldest firm of surveyors puts a high value on its 589 members of staff and prides itself on offering them a rewarding and challenging experience.
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It's been a challenging experience.
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She said that constantly working at the forefront of new technology had been a really challenging experience.
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challenging hike
As well as looking for bears, the eight-person group will seek red deer and golden eagles on this challenging hike.
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Scenic vistas reward the visitor who undertakes this sometimes challenging hike.
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This moderately challenging hike requires approximately 3 hours to complete, but can be shortened to about 1 hour by taking one of the cross-island forest trails.
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The programme includes short health walks, those for families, middle distances and challenging hikes for the more advanced.
The Sun
If you're feeling intrepid, the rugged interior also offers challenging hikes and cycling.
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challenging opportunity
When an unexpected and challenging opportunity opens up, you can make it work.
The Sun
This gives you the courage to say yes to a challenging opportunity that stretches your talents.
The Sun
You dare to say yes to a brilliant but extremely challenging opportunity.
The Sun
When a challenging opportunity comes round again, you'll turn it into a success.
The Sun
As belief in your talents deepens, a challenging opportunity opens up.
The Sun
challenging project
You can handle a challenging project that seems to come at the wrong time.
The Sun
While others hesitate, you take on a challenging project and make it work by focusing on what's right, not the easy options.
The Sun
Building from scratch can be an exciting and challenging project.
The Sun
I'm now looking forward to putting all these skills to the test again in my most exciting and challenging project yet.
Times, Sunday Times
If you are in a relationship, taking the first step in signing up together for a challenging project really makes you appreciate each other.
The Sun
challenging puzzle
The downloadable content features four new, extra challenging puzzle levels.
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Because the reader obtains clues in the same way as the protagonist detective, the book becomes an intellectually challenging puzzle.
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Understanding that the paper was certain to generate controversy, it was presented to readers in the context of a challenging puzzle.
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To get the maximum benefit out of brain-training exercises, scientists suggest that you do them regularly and tackle increasingly challenging puzzles over time.
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Modern computers have been used to search for similar patterns and more complex variants, and it has been published as a challenging puzzle in a peer-reviewed academic journal in 1994.
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challenging question
Someone who asks a challenging question has true love potential.
The Sun
They can't just walk out like they might in a press conference when they get asked a challenging question.
The Sun
The difficulty level set by the player at the beginning of the game corresponds to different and more challenging question sets.
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Governors should ask challenging questions, take collective responsibility and be able to work in a group.
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The students work together and collaborate in many different projects that require communication and critical thinking in order to answer a driving question or a challenging question.
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challenging role
Is that a challenging role, given how many biblical movies have been made with these same characters?
Christianity Today
Not because of an exciting script or challenging role.
The Sun
A spokesman said police officers had a challenging role which carried a significant degree of risk.
Times, Sunday Times
In that highly challenging role she was greatly admired for her skill in crisis management.
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She deserves credit for taking on such a challenging role, but the threadbare drama and music ultimately leave her marooned.
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challenging route
The hilly and challenging route combined with beautiful green scenery make the race unforgettable.
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The sport of bouldering - climbing without ropes or harnesses, typically on short, challenging routes - originated as a method of training for expert climbers and mountaineers.
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Other more challenging routes to the summit exist, such as on the west face.
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challenging subject
Suddenly, it seemed the most exciting, challenging subject imaginable.
Times, Sunday Times
I have a theory that business, and especially finance, are highly challenging subjects for the big screen.
Times,Sunday Times
Which offers greater insight, boasts the more challenging subjects, the more satisfied readership?
The Times Literary Supplement
She was a gifted and resourceful researcher, undaunted by the most challenging subjects.
Times, Sunday Times
Separate government data shows that some of the most challenging subjects are the worst affected.
Times, Sunday Times
challenging terrain
Adding hills or challenging terrain will speed up the rate at which you use up calories.
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That climate and challenging terrain make it an ideal training base for athletes.
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The challenging terrain demands a certain toughness.
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It's a remote region of rich landscapes punctuated by cypresses, olive trees, and mossy chestnut and beech forests filled with wild violets and orchids; gorgeous albeit challenging terrain.
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It will survey the environment as it descends, adjusting its course if necessary, allowing it to operate in more challenging terrain.
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challenging work
But the search for an answer was a serious distraction from a profoundly challenging work.
Times, Sunday Times
I am delighted to hear that your grandson's teachers are setting him challenging work.
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Is there any interface between dance as entertainment and more challenging work?
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The way you think gets more adventurous and you're ready to say yes to a good but challenging work project.
The Sun
The idea that we must all be happy all the time militates against experience, for the greatest satisfaction often comes from hard and challenging work.
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emotionally challenging
But even with such an emotionally challenging subject, she still manages to infuse her unique brand of humour.
The Sun
It has been emotionally challenging in every single way and a big shout to the fans who have been so patient with me.
The Sun
Neither your partner, family, nor close friends are behaving in a way to help you through this emotionally challenging day, so be prepared to go it alone.
The Sun
It's an emotionally challenging programme.
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That's business as in a logistically and emotionally challenging process for the would-be parents, but also business as in money-making operation for the doctors.
Times, Sunday Times
intellectually challenging
He went to the local high school - 'not very intellectually challenging' - rather than the neighbourhood's elite prep.
Times, Sunday Times
And 70 minutes of unremitting ballet music may not be the most intellectually challenging fare.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, after two or three years, the syllabus he helped to devise was made less intellectually challenging, concentrating on facts rather than reasoning.
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Both gripping and intellectually challenging.
Times, Sunday Times
This suggests that nothing serious or intellectually challenging could possibly emerge from that 502-year-old institution.
The Times Literary Supplement
mentally challenging
It's amazing, but it's tough and mentally challenging.
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It was, according to most reports, mentally challenging.
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There may be a healthy benefit after all for holding down a mentally challenging job.
Times, Sunday Times
People who had a professional career or a mentally challenging job had higher levels of cognitive reserve as did those educated to degree level.
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That's why you should schedule your most mentally challenging assignments for this week.
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physically challenging
None of our adventure activities were physically challenging - just nerve-jangling.
The Sun
Go for a run, a bike ride, do something physically challenging.
The Sun
It's a tough, physically challenging sport, but great if you want to get really fit and love an adrenalin rush.
Times, Sunday Times
Prefer something more physically challenging?
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Probably the most physically challenging and impressive to watch.
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technically challenging
It was her seventh attempt to scale the world's second highest and most technically challenging mountain.
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Negotiations have been politically and technically challenging but both sides understand each other's positions and the differences have narrowed.
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The company said that the second phase was more 'technically challenging' because the turbines would have been farther out to sea and in deeper water.
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It would be nice to step into a role which was technically challenging in a coaching capacity.
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Grade 4s will contain many technically challenging parts and some syncopation.
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Translations:
Chinese: 有挑战性的
Japanese: 挑戦的な
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