backbreaking
adj. (体力劳动)艰苦繁重的,累死人的
Back-breaking work involves a lot of hard physical effort.
Many months of back-breaking work still face them.
他们还要面对很多个月的繁重工作。
1. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
这些机器可以把农民从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来.
That's backbreaking work and may be too much for us.
这可是累人的工作,我们可能负荷不了.
Digging the garden is a backbreaking job.
翻整花园的地是件累人的活.
To look after these children is really a backbreaking job.
照看这些孩子确实是一件非常累人的事.