tall order
美 
英
- n.难办到的事；苛求
- 网络离谱的要求；难以完成的任务；苛刻的要求
英汉解释
例句
That's a tall order for a short bit of copy, but it's a skill anyone writing or editing for the Web should try to master.
这个要求有些难度，但却是每一个网站编辑应该掌握的技能。
That's a tall order for a tower, but the collection of non-profits that comprise the Center, along with a strong community, feel up to it.
对高楼来说，这是难以满足的要求，但是，包括该中心以及一个强大社区在内的非营利性组织认为他们能够做到。
That would be a tall order even for a freshly elected leader with a thumping majority and two terms in office.
即使对于一个以多数选票辅当选的两届连任政府而言，这都是很高的要求。
It is a tall order to expect me to finish the job in two days. It will take a week at least.
期望我在两天内完成这个任务是件困难的事情。这至少得一个星期。
Achieving all that would be a tall order for a much more robustly integrated organisation, so it probably won't happen.
即使对于一个一体化程度高得多的组织而言，实现所有上述目标也极其艰难，因此，这种情况不太可能出现。
I think your writers are pretty fantastic, but obviously reattaching someone's head is a bit of a tall order.
我觉得你们的编剧们都太棒了，但要把一个人的头给弄回来显然有点高要求了吧。
It was a tall order to ask him to be a partner in launching a new initiative of undefined duration when he was contemplating his own demise.
当死神在向他招手的时候，要他合作发起一项旷日持久的新倡议，未免太苛刻了。
But finding buyers for that grab bag of assets is likely to be a very tall order.
但要为这些林林总总的资产找到买家可能是个艰巨的任务。
A bit of a tall order as it is late afternoon already, but I reckon we can make it.
阿序位一高，因为它是黄昏了，但我想我们可以做到。
All this sounds sensible. But establishing a new platform and ultimately becoming a firm that looks much like IBM is a tall order.
这样的平台技术听上去很好，但构建一项平台并最终成为一家像IBM那样的公司可不那么简单。
It may be a tall order for some women to accept. But shorter females earn less than their loftier colleagues, a study claims.
对有些女性来说可能难以接受，但一项研究声称，个子较矮的女性比她们个子较高的女同事挣钱要少。
Given that this is a wretched literary genre in which almost every example is lamentable, to find the very worst is a tall order.
鉴于这是一个令人厌恶的文学类别，几乎其中每个例子都令人不快，因此，要找到最糟糕的那个，可是一项艰巨的任务。
It's a tall order, and at the moment Vietnam is seen as a production base for lower value-added goods like textiles, furniture or footwear.
他的这一想法未免太过苛求。当前，越南主要被视为低附加值商品如纺织产品、家具、鞋袜等的生产地。
"I know it's a tall order, but I haven't heard a good explanation yet as to why that shouldn't happen, " he said.
我明白这是苛刻要求，但我从未听过令我满意解释，为什麽不应该这样做。
It's very difficult, it's a very tall order, but I don't think you should be frightened of having that ambition.
这很难做到，这是非常高的目标，但是我认为如果你有这样的抱负，就不应该感到畏惧。
It's a tall order for a brand that has resisted a decade's worth of attempts to turn it around.
十年来，Gap公司一直想扭转颓势，但收效甚微。
A tall order when you throw dozens of members of Congress into a made-for-TV drama, at the historic Blair House.
将数十名国会成员丢在历史性的布莱尔楼电视直播的镜头前商讨医改问题是一个难以完成的任务。
All this is a tall order. Politicians have failed to control the costs of ageing populations for years.
这一切皆非易事，多年来政客们对控制老龄人口的支出已经失败。
Financing your education seems like a tall order for your parents, but there are still some other means available.
对你父母来说，供你上学是多么难的件事呀，不过还有其他方法可想的。
But getting people to spend more, especially in the face of an economic slowdown, may be a tall order.
但是，特别在面临经济减速的情况下，要让人们花更多的钱恐怕是个艰巨的任务。
Getting the crop harvested with so few hands to help was a tall order, but we did it.
帮手那么少，要将庄稼收割完是一件不容易的事，但我们做到了。
But a bank will finance the project only if the developer manages to sell a high percentage of the units upfront, a tall order.
只要开发者设法完成一个艰难的任务——设法提前销售完高百分比的房屋单元，银行就提供项目资金。
Given how ugly the housing market looked the past couple of months, this might seem like a tall order, but it stills possible.
由于过去几个月来房地产市场如此低迷，这样的要求可能有些苛刻，不过并非没有可能。
It is a tall order, but the UN cannot stop the war unless it is also able to win the peace.
这是个艰巨的任务，但除非联合国也能赢得和平，否则它将无法终止战争。
And that would mean European politicians admitting that both are needed to create a fair, just society: a tall order.
那就意味着，欧洲政治家们承认要创造一个公平公正的社会，自由化和社会安全网都必须兼顾：一个难以完成的事情。
It is a tall order, but today's technology can crunch through the genetic code of a virus relatively quickly.
这是一项苛刻的任务，好在现在的技术能够相对迅速的破译病毒的基因序列。
But going from stability to some sort of inflation surge is a tall order.
不过，从物价稳定到某种程度的通货膨胀还差得很远。
The truth is, even in Singapore which boasts a fairly efficient health-care system, this is still a tall order.
不过，即使在医疗系统效率颇高的新加坡，这也还是个很崇高的理想。
That's a tall order in technical terms - debt, product and a globally divided product lineup still stand in the way.
这是一项艰巨的任务在技术术语-债务，产品和全球产品线划分仍然阻碍。
The manufacturers maintained that to expect them to double their output withing three months was a tall order.
制造商们认为，要求他们在三个月内将产量翻一翻太离谱了。
This may seem like a tall order, and to some of you it may even seem impossible.
这看起来很难，有些人会觉得这不可能，但这是可以实现的。
To get the spectrum allocated to commercial mobile services within six years may be a tall order.
这个要求在六年内得到可分配在商业移动服务的频谱，看似一个苛刻的要求。
That's a tall order, considering the almost unfathomable complexity of the human brain.
考虑到人类大脑几乎深不可测的复杂程度，那就是比登天还难。
Expecting the Perimeter Institute to deliver insights on this scale is clearly a tall order.
期待圆周理论物理研究所提供如此规模的见解显然是一个艰巨的任务。
That's a tall order that cannot be satisfied at the cellular level of consciousness.
那是意识的细胞层面不能满足的离谱的目标。
Half the price of coal and no carbon: That's a tall order, which is why Gates is looking for a miracle.
低价、无碳的产能技术，这是个不易实现的目标，所以盖茨才会希望奇迹的发生。
Financing your studies may seem like a tall order, but there is plenty of help available.
为你学习提供资金的要求太苛刻了点，不过可以给你很多帮助。
Finding Easter eggs for a children's party in November is a tall order.
要在11月份为孩子们的聚会搞到复活节彩蛋，这一要求难以满足。
Persuading teachers without the usual inducement of higher pay will be a tall order.
没有提高工资条件就想要说服老师们做这做那无疑是种苛求。
This seems a tall order given that between 2003 and 2007 the government built less than half the 41, 000MW it had targeted.
这看来是个离谱的要求，要知道在2003年到2007年之间，印度政府新增的发电装机容量不及其所制定4.1万兆瓦目标的一半。
