John nearly broke his neck trying not to be late to school 为使上学不迟到，约翰费了九牛二虎之力。
Devil to open them too 要费九牛二虎之力才撬得开。
The pupil made great efforts to work out the linear equation 那个小学生费了九牛二虎之力去解这个一次方程式。
Pinching his lips tightly , he made that effort for the twenty thousandth time , and lay down 他想，他咬紧嘴唇，费了九牛二虎之力才躺了下来。
I uses the cow power and tiger energy to take these much of dim sum . . . it really contains blood and sweat ahhhhhhhhh ! 拼尽了9只公牛2只饿虎的力量（就是九牛二虎之力啦）才拿到这些点心的。 。 。真的是有血有汗啊！ ！
With infinite difficulty , for he was stubborn as a stone , i persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl - grey silk 费了九牛二虎之力，因为他像顽石一般固执我才说服他换一块素静的黑色缎子和珠灰色的丝绸。
Luis marden , scuba diver wrests a jar perhaps a thousand years old from the murk of a cenote , or ceremonial well in the late 1950s 路易斯?马登， 1950年代后期，带水下呼吸器的潜水员费尽九牛二虎之力从黑暗的灰岩坑中挖出一个可能有1000年历史的罐子。
Between us , with much trouble , we managed to hoist him upstairs , and laid him on his bed , where his head fell back on the pillow , as if he were almost fainting 我们俩费了九牛二虎之力，设法把他抬到了楼上，放倒在床上，使他的脑袋靠在了枕头上，好像他快要昏迷过去了。
For a month past that thief steiner had been scarcely able to pay up his thousand francs on the occasions when she threatened to kick him out of doors in case he failed to bring them 一个月以来，她常常威胁斯泰内这个牟取暴利的投机家，说如果他拿不出一千法郎给她，她就要把他赶出门，斯泰内总算花了九牛二虎之力，才搞来一千法郎。
The worst thing that can happen to a sales person is getting the much coveted appointment with a top decision maker , and then screw up the sales because the sales person said or asked or did something really way off - beat 最为糟糕的是，销售人员费了九牛二虎之力获得了与高层决策者见面的机会，却因为自己不适宜的言行举止白白将其浪费掉。
