| 单词 | back-breaking |
| 释义 | back-breaking also backbreaking adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort. Many months of back-breaking work still face them. Synonyms: exhausting, hard, difficult, wearing Collocations: back-breaking labour Keeping the enemies at bay was back-breaking labour. Times, Sunday Times After six years of back-breaking labour, and costing 1.65billion in today's money, the canal put the city on the map as the world's third biggest port. The Sun After two-and-a-half months of back-breaking labour, they could net as little as $16. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were finally able to haul their weary bodies off the field after 161 overs of hellish, back-breaking work. Times, Sunday Times It's back-breaking work lifting little angels in and out of the car an average of 7,500 times in their first three years. Times, Sunday Times Unsurprisingly, many students then go nowhere near the profession, especially as it involves back-breaking work in all weathers for infamously poor remuneration. Times,Sunday Times It's sweaty, back-breaking work, and soon even the professionals are pining for their modern oven... The Sun They usually earn around 30p to 40p for a day's back-breaking work. The Sun |
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