break the back of

基本解释

I should break the back of this piece of the work by this weekend.
到这个周末我应该完成这件工作中最艰巨的部分。
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.
美联储的行动已经强有力地说明，我们需要采取大规模的、广泛的、强有力的努力来破解这场危机。
It took them all day to break the back of the job.
他们干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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