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If work is backbreaking, it is so hard on the body that you feel worn out, as if your back might break. Think of lifting heavy boxes all day, digging, farming in the sun, or carrying water up . It is a strong, slightly informal word: you use it when you want someone to feel how painful the work is, not when you are filling in a form. Though actually people stretch it. Office workers sometimes call a long week backbreaking even when nobody's back was in danger. The older, central idea is physical work that leaves you .
累斷腰的
組成back (the part of your body) + breaking (from break).
同家族的字
- heartbreakingshares breaking, from break
- breakthe verb inside breaking
- backboneshares back, the spine
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
backbreakingadj
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Of work, very physically tiring.
- A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.
- Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。