arduous
arduous 英 [ˈɑ:djuəs] 美 [ˈɑrdʒuəs]
adj. 努力的；费力的；险峻的
- Use the adjective arduous to describe an activity that takes a lot of effort. Writing all those college essays and filling out the applications is an arduous process!
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- adj. 努力的；费力的；险峻的
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1. This work will be arduous, but we have to overcome the difficulty.
这将是十分艰苦的工作，但也是我们必须克服的困难。
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2. Therefore, they need the stopover habitat—the shallows, the sandbars, the security, the corn and invertebrates—to complete their arduous yearly cycle.
因此，它们需要这个中途停留的栖息地——浅滩、沙洲、安全、玉米和无脊椎动物——来完成年复一年的努力。
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3. The process of changing from what you are to what you would like to become can be either arduous and frustrating or easy and rewarding.
从现在的你变成你想成为的自己的过程可能是艰辛和令人沮丧的，也可以是容易且值得的。
- arduous (adj.) 1530s, "hard to accomplish, difficult to do, attended with much labor," from Latin arduus "high, steep," also figuratively, "difficult, hard to reach," from PIE root *eredh- "high" (see ortho-). Literal sense of "high, steep, difficult to climb" is attested in English from 1709. Related: Arduously; arduousness.
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