88. When the persuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed, the really challenging task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines. 88.当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后,真正艰难的任务还没有开始;即危险,吃力,需要伤筋动骨和吵吵嚷嚷的建造这些铁路的实际工作。
1.persuade
1)vt. 说服(某人)做某事;劝说;引诱
I am trying to persuade him to give up the attempt.
我正力图劝他放弃这种尝试。
2)vt.使(某人)相信
I am persuaded that such is the fact.
我相信事实如此。
3)vt.恳求;敦促;驱使
The threat of employment persuades workers to moderate their pay demands.
失业的威胁驱使工人们只好对工资降格以求。
4)vi.说明;劝服(with)
She persuades easily.
她这人很容易说服
2.sweaty
adj. 出汗的;吃力的;使人出汗的
As "friends" on her toes, sweaty standing on the go profile topspin light bulb, come up a live upstairs in the 80 boys.
正当“小朋友”踮着脚尖,吃力的站在走廓上旋灯泡时,上来一个住在楼上的80后男孩子。
I clutched my dime tightly in my sweaty palm. Excitement took my breath away.
我的心快跳出来了,我将我那一角硬币紧紧地攥在出汗的手里,兴奋地快喘不上气了。
3.backbreaking
adj. 非常辛劳的;费力的
I think, for example, of the backbreaking work most Indian women do every day, without it appearing to earn them much respect from their own families.
再比如,我想到了大多数印度妇女每天都从事的辛勤劳动,而这似乎并不能为她们赢得家人的多少尊重。
4.brawling
1)n. 争吵;喧嚷
Table tennis officials played down the incident saying there had been no brawling and that the story had been amplified because of Wang&`&s celebrity status in table tennis-mad China.