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Definition of back-breaking in English: back-breakingadjective (of manual labour) physically demanding. （尤指体力劳动）累人的，繁重的 a day's back-breaking work 一天的繁重工作。 Example sentencesExamples - Those capable of working were not sent to the gas chambers, but put to back-breaking labour under horrific conditions.
- For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
- Other such jobs follow, short-lived, often back-breaking, alternating with drifting poverty-stricken in the city, sleeping in alleys and telephone booths.
- The broader point is, in large reconstruction projects, back-breaking labor is often and most often - most often done by immigrants at low wages who are willing to do these jobs that the nation needs to be done.
- While the methods may be back-breaking and labor-intensive, the payoff, winemakers say, is a purer, better quality wine and a product that's healthier.
- I told him about the back-breaking work of doing it all ourselves, and how Jon had demolished the kitchen himself and then wired the whole room for electricity.
- This took another 13 years of back-breaking work.
- Monday meant a return to the fields and back-breaking labour.
- Millions of children, mostly girls, are pulled out of school to look after sick relatives, do back-breaking paid work and run households.
- The unemployed were signed up to do back-breaking manual work for low pay.
- In poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of the city, the vast majority of children must work, often doing back-breaking manual labour for a few pounds a day.
- The migrants workers are paid next to nothing to work picking strawberries, which is back-breaking work for long hours, and often they have no homes to go to when work is over.
- In the searing hot sun, the road-gang convicts endure back-breaking physical labor - chopping dusty weeds by the side of the highway.
- There is no sense in wasting all your energy on back-breaking physical or mental labor.
- A recent union survey of shearers found 70 per cent would not encourage their friends, family or children to become shearers, saying the back-breaking work was no longer worth it.
- Each spear is harvested by hand, and most cans are hand-packed, demanding countless hours of back-breaking field and factory labor - the cheaper the better.
- These are the least desirable jobs because they require back-breaking labor, are outdoors, require exposure to pesticides, and pay the lowest wages.
- Many women continued to work long, exhausting hours as wage labourers for miserly rates of pay, while as housewives their constant companions were poverty and back-breaking drudgery.
- Now, many find themselves worn out after decades of back-breaking physical work, and they are unable to find work.
- Building roads from the seashore up to five thousand feet on the slopes of Mauna Loa demanded back-breaking labor.
Synonyms gruelling, arduous, strenuous, onerous, punishing, murderous, crushing, Herculean, demanding, exacting, taxing, formidable, exhausting, draining, laborious, burdensome, tough, stiff, uphill, heavy informal killing British informal knackering archaic toilsome
Definition of back-breaking in US English: back-breaking(also backbreaking) adjectiveˈbækˌbreɪkɪŋˈbakˌbrākiNG attributive (especially of manual labor) physically demanding. （尤指体力劳动）累人的，繁重的 a day's back-breaking work 一天的繁重工作。 Example sentencesExamples - While the methods may be back-breaking and labor-intensive, the payoff, winemakers say, is a purer, better quality wine and a product that's healthier.
- In the searing hot sun, the road-gang convicts endure back-breaking physical labor - chopping dusty weeds by the side of the highway.
- These are the least desirable jobs because they require back-breaking labor, are outdoors, require exposure to pesticides, and pay the lowest wages.
- Building roads from the seashore up to five thousand feet on the slopes of Mauna Loa demanded back-breaking labor.
- This took another 13 years of back-breaking work.
- Now, many find themselves worn out after decades of back-breaking physical work, and they are unable to find work.
- Millions of children, mostly girls, are pulled out of school to look after sick relatives, do back-breaking paid work and run households.
- The broader point is, in large reconstruction projects, back-breaking labor is often and most often - most often done by immigrants at low wages who are willing to do these jobs that the nation needs to be done.
- Many women continued to work long, exhausting hours as wage labourers for miserly rates of pay, while as housewives their constant companions were poverty and back-breaking drudgery.
- For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
- Those capable of working were not sent to the gas chambers, but put to back-breaking labour under horrific conditions.
- A recent union survey of shearers found 70 per cent would not encourage their friends, family or children to become shearers, saying the back-breaking work was no longer worth it.
- Other such jobs follow, short-lived, often back-breaking, alternating with drifting poverty-stricken in the city, sleeping in alleys and telephone booths.
- There is no sense in wasting all your energy on back-breaking physical or mental labor.
- The unemployed were signed up to do back-breaking manual work for low pay.
- In poverty-stricken neighbourhoods of the city, the vast majority of children must work, often doing back-breaking manual labour for a few pounds a day.
- Monday meant a return to the fields and back-breaking labour.
- I told him about the back-breaking work of doing it all ourselves, and how Jon had demolished the kitchen himself and then wired the whole room for electricity.
- The migrants workers are paid next to nothing to work picking strawberries, which is back-breaking work for long hours, and often they have no homes to go to when work is over.
- Each spear is harvested by hand, and most cans are hand-packed, demanding countless hours of back-breaking field and factory labor - the cheaper the better.
Synonyms gruelling, arduous, strenuous, onerous, punishing, murderous, crushing, herculean, demanding, exacting, taxing, formidable, exhausting, draining, laborious, burdensome, tough, stiff, uphill, heavy
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