hard work

English

Noun

hard work (uncountable)

1. Something requiring much effort to accomplish, either physical, mental or emotional; labor; toil. (This entry is a translation hub.)
   • 1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, pages 493, 495:

     Compact strongly-built engines, with a capacity for hard work, they were, perhaps, not in the front rank of handsome locomotives, yet withal were pleasing to the eye.

   • 2011 November 12, Phil McNulty, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Capello was keen to use Phil Jones, normally a defender, in central midfield - but it was hard work for the Manchester United teenager and his England colleagues in the first half as Spain predictably dominated possession.

Related terms

• hard labor
• work hard

Translations

something requiring lots of effort to do

Dalmatian: fataica f Finnish: kova työ French: labeur (fr) m, travail acharné m German: harte Arbeit f, Schufterei (de) f Greek: μόχθος (el) m (móchthos), κόπος (el) m (kópos) Hindi: मेहनत (hi) f (mehnat) Hungarian: kemény/fárasztó/fáradságos/kimerítő munka, robotolás (hu), gürcölés (hu), gürizés, vesződés (hu), küszködés (hu), kínlódás (hu), erőlködés (hu), bajlódás (hu), erőfeszítés (hu), vesződség (hu), fáradozás (hu) Icelandic: erfiðisvinna f, erfiði (is) n Indonesian: jerih (id), jerih payah (id), kerja keras Irish: luain f Italian: faticata (it) f, operosità (it) f Polish: wysiłek (pl) m, ciężka praca f Russian: тяжёлая рабо́та f (tjažólaja rabóta), тяжёлый труд m (tjažólyj trud), труд (ru) m (trud) Sanskrit: श्रम (sa) m (śráma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тру̑д m Roman: trȗd (sh) m Spanish: trabajo duro / arduo m