Translation for "backbreaking" to spanish

Backbreaking

adjective

• matador

Translation examples

matador adjective

It's backbreaking work, you know?
Es un trabajo matador, ¿sabes?

Wow. That is literally backbreaking work.
Esto es literalmente un trabajo matador.

A week of backbreaking effort had left his men worse off than before.
Una semana de matador esfuerzo había dejado a sus hombres en peores condiciones que antes.

it was continuous, backbreaking toil, and they had no leisure for making up their minds about their new commander.
fue un trabajo continuo y matador, y no dispusieron de tiempo libre para hacerse una idea de cómo era su nuevo comandante.

None of them had bothered the colonists or the Terrestrial animals they'd introduced, but no Terrestrial life form could live on the local vegetation, Terran food crops had been all but impossible to raise, and yields had been spectacularly low. The colonists had managed—somehow—to survive by endless, backbreaking labor in the fields, but some staple crops had been completely wiped out, dietary deficiencies had been terrible, and they'd known that for all their desperate efforts, they were waging an ultimately hopeless war against their own planet's microbiology.
Ninguno había molestado a los colonos ni a los animales terrestres que habían introducido, pero ningún tipo de vida terrestre podía vivir solo de la vegetación nativa. Era casi imposible cultivar alimentos y la cantidad que rendían era bajísima. Los colonos consiguieron (de algún modo) sobrevivir gracias a una labor matadora en los campos, pero algunos de los cultivos básicos quedaron asolados y las deficiencias dietéticas eran abismales;