| 单词 | Sisyphean |
| 释义 | Sisyphean (once / 96092 pages) adj A Sisyphean task seems impossible to complete. You might look at the mountain of laundry on your bedroom floor and feel like washing it will be a Sisyphean job — especially since you know that you will have to wash it all again the following week. You can use Sisyphean to describe things that require a lot of hard work and yet will never be truly finished. Keeping a house clean can feel Sisyphean, and so can deciding on a movie that everyone in a family will enjoy. The word comes from the character Sisyphus in Greek mythology, who was sentenced for his wrongdoing to push a boulder up a hill and watch it roll back down, again and again, forever. WORD FAMILYSisyphean USAGE EXAMPLESAnna Kelsey, my counterpart at the startup x.ai, put our herculean, or maybe Sisyphean, task in cheerful terms. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) There is nothing Sisyphean or cynical about this. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) One hundred and eight Sisyphean years had passed since the Cubs won the world championship. The Guardian(Nov 04, 2016) 1adj both extremely effortful and futile Syn effortful requiring great physical effort 2adj of or relating to Sisyphus |
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