It's a noun, it means physical, or mental effort.

它是一个名词，意味着体力，或脑力劳动。

In the past, people's jobs required more physical effort.

过去，人们的工作需要更多的体力劳动。

And chasing that impossible goal can set someone up to expend a lot of physical and mental effort.

追求不可能的目标会让人付出大量的体力和脑力。

And this is a company that wants to retain staff and it's a hard physical effort.

这是一家想要留住员工的公司， 这是一项艰苦的体力劳动。

So Platten's is a bit different in that it's physical effort, not an office job essentially.

所以Platten's有点不同， 因为它是体力劳动， 本质上不是办公室工作。

Because rearranging limp dahlias into buckets of water requires so much physical and mental effort, doesn't it, Treen?

因为将柔软的大丽花重新排列到水桶中需要大量的体力和脑力，不是吗， 特林？

But I also know that the physical effort I'll be expending can be less strenuous than the emotional effort of saying the right words in precisely the right way.

但我也知道，我将花费的体力可能比用正确的方式说正确的话的情感努力要轻松得多。

Conway then made what appeared to be a tremendous physical and mental effort to remember, and said at last that the thing was a Chopin study.

康威似乎费了很大的力气才想起来， 最后说那是肖邦的曲目。

I know that the physical effort I will expend in opening the gate is an order of magnitude larger than what I'm asking of this other person, who can slide the bolt effortlessly, push and pull the gate with barely a thought.

我知道，我在打开大门时所花费的体力比我对他人的请求要大一个数量级，他可以毫不费力地滑动螺栓，几乎不用思考就能推拉大门。