0 needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort or energy -- 费力的,费劲的;繁重的;耗费精力的
He rarely does anything more strenuous than changing the channels on the television. 他很少做比换电视频道更费神的事。
His doctor advised him not to do any strenuous exercise. 他的医生建议他不要做任何剧烈运动。
Strenuous efforts were made throughout the war to disguise the scale of civilian casualties. 整个战争期间,政府都在煞费苦心地掩盖平民的伤亡程度。
For older freelancers, then, the occupation was found to be an increasingly strenuous and compromised endeavour, and it was undertaken for ever-diminishing returns.
A highly condensed exposition makes for strenuous reading in a few papers, but the contents make it well worth the effort.
But what is most striking is that most authors made no such attempt, and indeed made strenuous efforts to secure proper authorization for their works.
We currently recommend abstention from competitive or strenuous sports for the majority of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
It was strenuous work, but it succeeded in the end.
Giving due weight to this logic of the sacred requires a particularly strenuous leap into historical and cultural otherness.
Seventy-seven percent of these patients had no symptoms of angina or dyspnea with normal or less strenuous effort.
Automatic writing was one of the most widespread mediumistic gifts, as it required nothing more strenuous that the ability to enter a trance.