美 [ˈɡruːəlɪŋ]
adj. 使人精疲力尽的；艰辛的；让人受不了的
gruel /ˈɡruːəl/ CET6
不可数名词 Gruel is a food made by boiling oats with water or milk. 燕麦粥
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The production of functional food(Gruel,Beverage and Preserves) from(Dioscorea batatas)Chinese yam bean was studied,and the optimum processing condition was determined.
介绍以山药豆为原料开发功能性保健食品山药豆粥、山药豆饮料和山药豆脯的开发工艺。 探讨了生产工艺的最佳条件。
参考来源山药豆作为功能食品的开发利用
一群要累垮(Grueling)的人一摆出进攻的架势就被荷兰人当猴耍也就不奇怪了。土扶可城墙，积德可厚地。
... 使某人精疲力尽 wear sb out ; take it out of sb 使划得精疲力尽 row out 使精疲力尽的 grueling ...
疲乏，劳累 grueling adj. 繁重而累人的 GRE写作部分将重点考察考生有针对性地对具体考题做出反应的能力，而非要求考生堆砌泛泛的文字。
惩罚；劳累
punishment / rod / payment / discipline
累垮人的；折磨人的
Her schedule—up at 5:30 a.m. and returning emails into the wee hours—is grueling.
她的日程——早上5:30起床，直到凌晨还在回复电子邮件——非常令人疲惫。
It's a grueling schedule, but Lee worries that it may not be good enough to get him into a top university.
日程安排很紧张，但李担心这可能不足以让他进入顶尖大学。
Busing tables was grueling work.
收拾餐桌这份工作十分累人。
Those were really tough tours. They were kept out very often for up to three months, under some pretty grueling conditions.
VOA : special.2010.06.21
So part of the goal here is, this should not be a grueling, exhausting kind of task, it's really something that should be helping you learn the material.
所以部分目标在于，这不应该是一个累赘，不是那种沉重的任务，它应该能帮助你,学习材料。
计算机科学及编程导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
You went through a grueling screening process.
这是个疲劳轰炸的筛选过程。
固态化学导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
The tours were both exhilarating and grueling, but night-after-night, Tia managed to try out some jazzy new solos.
VOA : standard.2010.06.09
They describe their grueling hours in poor, makeshift facilities.
VOA : standard.2010.06.29
Chesapeake Energy after grueling months of revelations about self dealing, secret financings and conflicts of interest.
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What followed was one of the most grueling corporate restructurings in the retail industry.
At the grueling 75-minute circuit training class, it's clear that she's not there to socialize.