operose

英 ['ɒpəˌrəʊs] 美 ['ɒpəˌroʊs]

• adj. 费力的；吃力的；勤勉的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;

   "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"
   "a grueling campaign"
   "hard labor"
   "heavy work"
   "heavy going"
   "spent many laborious hours on the project"
   "set a punishing pace"
   

经典引文

• Operose and scholarly collected editions.

  出自：New Scientist

近反义词

【近义词】

• painful 痛苦的
• tiresome 令人厌倦的
• exacting 严格的
• fussy 过分装饰的
• punishing 艰难持久的
• grueling 折磨人的
• arduous 费力的
• toilsome 费力的
• heavy 大(量)的
• laborious 艰苦的
• backbreaking 非常辛苦的
• gruelling 繁重而累人的...
• hard 硬的