onerous

英 [ˈəʊnərəs]

美 [ˈoʊnərəs]

adj.  费力的; 艰巨的; 令人焦虑的

GRE法律

Collins.1 / BNC.13976 / COCA.15400

牛津词典

adj.

• 费力的；艰巨的；令人焦虑的
  needing great effort; causing trouble or worry
  1. an onerous duty/task/responsibility
     繁重的义务 / 工作 / 职责

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （任务）繁重的，艰巨的，麻烦的
  If you describe a task asonerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant.
  1. ...parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child.
     曾经辛辛苦苦地养育过任性难缠的孩子的父母亲

英英释义

adj

• not easily borne
  1. the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return
  2. my duties weren't onerou
  3. a taxing schedule
  Synonym:burdensometaxing

双语例句

• To avoid onerous tax bills and tax hassles, try to confine any selling to your retirement accounts.
  为避免沉重的税金和复杂的税务问题，尽量把所有抛售都限制在退休账户中进行。
• The work is so onerous that I could hardly earn one minute from daytime for a rest!
  工作如此繁重，以至于白天很难有哪怕是一分钟的休息时间！
• I've disliked variable annuities for many years because of their high fees and onerous surrender penalties.
  我已经不喜欢可变年金多年，因为他们的高收费和繁琐的投降处罚。
• The proposed rules may be unrealistic as well as onerous. I got lost in your rather diffuse essay.
  草拟的规则也许不太现实而且冗赘。你的文章行文冗赘，弄得我有点糊涂了。
• They say onerous requirements for passwords have given us a false sense of protection against potential attacks.
  他们认为密码过分的要求给了我们抵御潜在攻击的虚假的安全感。
• But the scope and cost of data warehouse efforts were frequently onerous.
  但是数据仓库工作的范围和成本常常是巨大的。
• Literacy education will continue to be a period of time in the future Chinese education is quite onerous task.
  扫盲教育仍将是未来一段时间中国教育工作中相当繁重的任务。
• By automatically classifying MCG data, we can reduce the onerous manual work and find some useful rules.
  对MCG测量数据进行自动分类，可以减少人工分析，快速找出数据的有用规律。
• More people of this calibre make dealing with government departments a pleasure and not an onerous task.
  希望更多像马女士这样的人让我们感到来政府部门办事很愉快，而不会觉得是让人头痛的问题。
• The onerous nature of these and other COPPA provisions explains why social networks have tended to shun the young.
  COPPA的上述规定及其它条款繁琐复杂，这就使得社交网络都刻意避开年轻客户。