I had to drive nine hours without a break – it was exhausting.
我一刻不停地开了九小时的车——让人精疲力竭。
an exhausting week of singing, acting, and dancing
唱歌、表演、跳舞,令人精疲力竭的一周
hard very tiring and difficult – used about days, journeys etc 〔日子、旅行等〕艰难的
a hard day at work
辛苦工作的一天
The last part of the journey was very hard.
旅途的最后一程很艰难。
wearing /ˈweərɪŋ $ ˈwer-/ tiring because you have to use a lot of your mentalenergy, and often become bored – used about people, situations etc 〔人、情形等〕令人疲倦[厌烦]的
I find her constant questions rather wearing.
她不停地问问题我觉得很烦。
Kids of that age can be very wearing.
那个年龄的孩子会很烦人。
nHis films always tend to have the same plots, which does get rather wearing after a while.
gruellingBritish EnglishBrE, gruelingAmerican EnglishAmE (also punishing) very tiring physically or mentally – used when you have to keep doing something for a long time 使人疲劳的,累心的〔用于必须长久地做某事时〕
nLaborers were paid $2 a day for backbreaking farm work.
nsomething is a killer informal used when saying that something is extremely tiring
Today was a real killer.
nfatiguing formal making you feel very tired
Factory work was repetitive and fatiguing.
Examples from the Corpus
tiring• The journey was really tiring.• Working full time can be extremely tiring.• Long periods of continuousstudy are very tiring.• Three tiring and deafeningweeks passed with no obvious change.• The wholeprocess was one of the most tiring and yet satisfying things I have ever done in my life.• Then Huddersfield rallied, and the fiery centre-forward Islip forced his way through to beat the tiring Burnley defenders.• I've had such a tiring day. I just want to take a bath and go to bed.• It had been, I realized, an extremely long and tiring day.• The Colleen - what a tiringgirl she sounds - prattled incessantly of horses.• Sam couldn't wait for the whole tiringordeal to be over.• You could try of course, but after a colossal, tiring ridge-walk you would be a dingbat even to think of it.• Moving into a situation is usually less tiring than backing away.