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

     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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 努力 (zh) (nǔlì), 辛苦 (zh) (xīnkǔ), 辛勤工作 (xīnqín gōngzuò)

• Dalmatian: fataica f
• Finnish: kova työ
• French: labeur (fr) m
• German: harte Arbeit f, Schufterei (de) f
• Greek: μόχθος (el) m (móchthos), κόπος (el) m (kópos)
• Icelandic: erfiðisvinna f, erfiði (is) n
• 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