過酷

かこく【過酷】

～な severe; hard; harsh; rigorous; exacting; demanding; 〔残酷な〕 cruel.

●過酷な取り扱いをする be harsh 《with…》; be hard 《on…》; deal cruelly [severely] 《with…》; subject sb to cruel [harsh] treatment

・過酷な要求 a harsh [rigorous] demand

・過酷な刑 a harsh [severe] punishment [sentence]

・過酷な気候 a harsh climate

・過酷な条件 a severe [harsh] condition

・過酷な労働 overdemanding [overtaxing, unduly harsh] work

・過酷な運命 a cruel fate.

●トライアスロンは過酷なレースである. The triathlon is a very demanding race.

・北の大地に過酷な冬がやってきた. The severe winter has visited the land of the north.

・私はあまりにノルマが過酷なのでその仕事をやめた. The reason I quit that job is that the minimum targets set for each worker were too severe [demanding, exacting].

過酷さ severity; harshness; rigorousness; 〔残酷さ〕 cruelty; cruelness.

過酷に severely; harshly; rigorously; cruelly.

●過酷に扱う deal with sb [sth] too severely [harshly].

過酷試験 【薬】 〔医薬品の安定性試験法の一種〕 a severe test.

過酷事故 〔原子炉の炉心に重大な損傷が及ぶ事故〕 a severe accident.