Herculean labour

费力的劳动.

a Herculean task

艰巨任务.

Digging the canal was a Herculean task.

开凿运河是项极其艰巨的工程。

It is a Herculean task.

那是一个非常艰巨的任务。

The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence

铁棚每天都由座小心地加以检查，这些卒是特选出来的，从他们魁伟的身体和冷酷的表情上，可以看出他们是善于用恐怖和机警来统治囚徒的。

Truly none was so fit to set about this herculean labor as Petruchio

这样困难的事除了彼特鲁乔以外确实找不到更合适的人来办了。

A Herculean effort was made.

作了巨大努力.

In May Mrs Merkel sacked the environment minister, Norbert Rottgen, after he led her Christian Democrats to a disastrous defeat in a regional election. His successor is Peter Altmaier, a canny parliamentarian who will share responsibility with the economy minister, Philipp Rosler. In fact Mrs Merkel has taken charge herself. She convenes energy summits with leaders of the 16 states, and promises to incorporate grid operators’ plans into federal law by the end of the year.|| But even she admits the Energiewende is a “Herculean task”.||

||1:今年五月，Norbert Rottgen代表基民盟竞选州长失败，默克尔随后解除了其环境部长职位，并任命精明谨慎的国会议员Peter Altmaier接任。Altmaier将同财政部长Philipp Rosler共担重任。||2:事实上，默克尔早已亲自接管此事。||3:她召集16个州的州长举行州长能源峰会，并向各州长保证，将会在今年年底前，把电网运营商的计划纳入联邦法律。||4:但就连她自己也不得不承认能源转型计划是一项异常艰巨的任务。||

Across the country, bank lending, which shrank almost steadily from early 2009, is growing again (see chart), thanks to modest employment growth, stabilising home prices in many regions, and the Federal Reserve’s Herculean efforts to hold down interest rates.

从2009年初几乎有规律缩水的遍布各地的银行放贷再次增长（如图），这得益于适度的就业增长、一些区域的稳定的家庭消费和美联储压低利率的大力努力。

It was a Herculean task, akin to being fashion consultant to Steve Bannon.

这是一份艰巨的任务，类似于给史蒂芬·班农当时尚顾问一样艰巨。

In addition, faculty members must have a driving passion toward their research and be willing to devote a Herculean effort over many years.

此外，教师必须对他们的研究有强烈的激情，并愿意用多年的时间投入艰辛的努力。

But such Herculean domestic labours may leave little energy for the external agenda.

但如此艰巨的国内任务，可能会使中国领导人无力顾及外部议程。

Today, herculean efforts to save threatened species are unfolding at dozens of military sites across the nation, from Eglin, Fla.

而如今，全国几十个军事基地都在不遗余力地拯救濒危物种。

Despite our remarkable progress, the Chinese banking sector still confronts Herculean tasks.

尽管我们取得了明显进步，但中国银行业仍面临极为艰巨的任务。

One lesson is that it shows the Herculean and creative lengths the Fed went to, to keep the system afloat during 2008 and 2009.

其中一点是，它显示出2008至2009年期间，美联储为维持金融体系的正常运行，所付出的巨大努力。

Nowadays, sound parenting is often more important to the viability of a man’s offspring than Herculean strength.

如今，对于孩子的生存能力而言，良好的教育比赫拉克斯的蛮力更为重要。

Maintaining five friendships promises to be a Herculean task, so I’m going to have to let one of you go.

维持五个朋友的友情太困难了，所以…我要开除你们其中一个。

Hannibal, a master of propaganda eager to create a reputation to equal that of Alexander the Great, followed the Herculean route to Italy.

宣传大师汉尼拔急于树立像亚历山大大帝一样的声望，沿着赫拉克勒斯之路打到意大利。

This was probably the first project on which our team didn’t have to work Herculean hours near the end of development and testing.

这也许是我们的团队在开发和测试的结尾不必花费大量时间工作的第一个项目。

The more than Herculean task which is now at last completed began with the appointment of the Statutory Commission in 1927.

这一始于1927年指定法律委员会的艰巨无比的任务终于完成了。

herculean task

n.艰巨的任务