1·Busing tables was grueling work.
收拾餐桌这份工作十分累人。
2·Grueling work hours can add to anxiety and a lack of health care means that stress-related illnesses will go untreated.
令人难以忍受的的工作小时会导致压力的增加，而健康保障的缺乏意味着压力导致的疾病将得不到治疗。
3·His grueling work schedule, say aides, is almost surely a major explanation for the stomach ailment that hospitalized him for several days earlier last month.
据他的助手说，他接近自虐式的工作计划是导致他在上个月产生胃部疾病而住院数天的最好解释。
4·Living conditions can be Dickensian, and grueling six-day work weeks leave little time for anything else but sleeping, eating and doing the laundry.
生存条件可以跟狄更斯时代一样，每周极其辛苦地工作六天，留下来的时间只有睡觉、吃饭和洗衣。
5·For years, I drove more than 20 miles to work, often in grueling conditions from my home in the suburbs to downtown Atlanta.
这些年来，我要到驱车20多英里去工作，非常疲倦的从郊区的家里到亚特兰大的市中心。
6·Only through grueling, hard work can you hope to understand or belong to the new world that is constantly (and rudely) emerging.
只有经过辛勤付出你才可能理解或融入这个不断(猝然)涌现的新世界。
7·We're brought up with our parents making us think that work is some kind of grueling sacrifice they've done to "give us a better life."
在父母的潜移默化的影响下，我们就会认为工作是为了“让自己过上更美好的生活”而做出的某种残酷的牺牲。
8·Sometimes, when the daily grind is too grueling, it's hard to take your mind off work and transition to weekend mode.
有时候，工作中的琐事实在太烦人，让你很难做到不去想它，然后转换到双休日休息模式。
9·While their children are gone, the parents, many of whom were in debt from their journey to the United States, work grueling hours, often traveling around the country from one job to the next.
趁着孩子不在身边，父母们——其中很多人是借债来美国的——会拼命打工，常常因为工作变动奔走于美国各地。