break the back of accomplish the main hardest part of (a task) 完成某项任务中最困难的部分： we've broken the back of the problem. 我们已经解决了这个问题的最困难的部分。 ■ overwhelm or defeat 制服; 击败： I thought we really had broken the back of inflation. 我想我们已经控制住了通货膨胀。 break the back of1.毁坏;伤其要害：This chemical theory is incorrect，through controversy we have broken the back of it.这个化学理论是不正确的，经过长期的争论，我们已经使它站不住脚。2.克服某工作中最艰巨部分;度过最困难时刻：It took us more than three months to break the back of this engineering.我们用了3个多月的时间做完这工程的最艰巨部分。 |