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If something is gruelling, it is very hard and it leaves you tired through and through. A gruelling walk, a gruelling test, a gruelling shift at work: you can finish, but you have little left.
If something is gruelling如果一件事是gruelling it is very hard就是非常辛苦 and it leaves you而且會讓你 tired through and through累到骨子裡. A gruelling walk累人的健走, a gruelling test累人的考試, a gruelling shift at work累人的輪班: you can finish你撐得完, but you have little left但所剩不多.
The word is about effort and tiredness. It is not about blood or horror; that is gruesome, a different word.
The word這個字 is about說的是 effort and tiredness辛苦和疲累. It is not about講的不是 blood or horror血腥或恐怖; that is gruesome那是gruesome, a different word是不同的字.
British English gruelling with two L's. American English usually with one L. The meaning does not change.
British English英式英文 writes gruelling把gruelling拼成 with two L's兩個L. American English美式英文 usually writes grueling通常把grueling拼成 with one L一個L. The meaning意思 does not change不會變.
It comes from an old verb to , 'to punish or wear someone out,' and that verb came from the thin food — the idea of being worn down as if you had been put on a hard, poor diet. Almost nobody uses the verb now. The adjective is the form you will meet.
It comes from這個字來自 an old verb to gruel一個古老的動詞to gruel, meaning意思是 'to punish or wear someone out,'「懲罰或把人搞垮」 and that verb而這個動詞 came from來自 the thin food gruel稀粥這種食物gruel — the idea of概念是 being worn down被搞垮 as if就好像 you had been put on被逼著吃 a hard, poor diet又硬又差的飲食. Almost nobody現在幾乎沒有人 uses the verb用這個動詞 now了. The adjective形容詞 is the form才是 you will meet你會遇到的形式.
組成From the present participle of the old verb gruel ('to exhaust, punish'), itself from the noun gruel. British spelling keeps the double L.
同家族的字
- gruelthe food word, and the old verb 'to wear someone out,' that this adjective comes from
原始詞典資料4 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。
gruellingadj詞源 2/ˈɡɹʊə.lɪŋ/
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Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
- Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
gruellingnoun詞源 2/ˈɡɹʊə.lɪŋ/
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hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
- The expenses are considerably reduced, and one or two men are prevented from carrying off nearly all the races ; for though " the spirit" may be ever so " willing," the " flesh is weak," and cannot stand more than five or six gruellings in a single day.
- Miss Harriet just got there first from Vauban, the latter being leg weary from his previous gruellings ; the bitch scored four more before giving way to the dog, who made some nice driving points ; Miss Harriet, coming again, finished a good trial an easy winner.
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A gruelling ordeal.
- It was the hardest fighting that our Canadians have been up against, and the manner in which they took these terrible gruellings and assaults is one of the most creditable occurrences in the annals of this great war."
- Its life may be but for its hour, amid the gruellings of the world, but for this hour it justifies both its kind and nature, which has produced it, and though it fade and perish, yet it lives as the patterning embodiment of a whole striving after beauty of a creative nature.
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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。