break the back of

常見例句

I should break the back of this piece of the work by this weekend.
到這個周末我應該完成這件工作中最艱巨的部分。
It is a strong statement by the Fed that it is going to take massive, broad, forceful efforts to try to break the back of [resolve] the crisis," he said.
美聯(lián)儲的行動已經強有力地說明，我們需要採取大槼模的、廣泛的、強有力的努力來破解這場危機。
It took them all day to break the back of the job.
他們乾了一整天才把工作的最主要部分完成了。

What we have done is pushed back the Taliban and what we have done also is start to break that chain of terror that links the mountains of Afghanistan and in Pakistan to the streets of Britain,"

Now, to do that, the first thing we had to do was break the back of this recession.
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So when I took office, we knew the first thing we had to do was to break the back of this recession.
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Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had signaled, by jacking up interest rates so high, that he would stop at nothing to break the back of inflation.
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