drudgery

英 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]

美 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]

n.  单调乏味的苦差事; 繁重无聊的工作

复数：drudgeries　

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BNC.19455 / COCA.20108

牛津词典

noun

• 单调乏味的苦差事；繁重无聊的工作
  hard boring work

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 单调乏味的苦差事;无聊的工作
  You usedrudgeryto refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done.
  1. People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.
     人们想摆脱日常生活中单调乏味的工作。

英英释义

noun

• hard monotonous routine work
  Synonym:ploddinggrinddonkeywork

双语例句

• Gone will be the drudgery and drag of life as you know it, and if you have any concept of what paradise is like you may have just an impression of what it is like.
  你们所知道的单调沉闷的工作和被生活拖着走将一去不复返，如果你们对天堂是什么样子有概念的话，关于它像什么你们可能有一点点印象。
• I thought feminism was about liberating women from enforced domestic and maternal drudgery.
  我想妇女运动目的是使妇女从家庭及做母亲的辛劳中解放出来。
• Many caregivers told me that their experience was dissolving, through simple drudgery, their fear of death.
  许多照顾者们告诉我，通过简单的劳累，他们的经历正在消除他们对死亡的恐惧。
• Every day feels like drudgery; doing the same old thing again and again and again.
  每天都觉得在做份苦差事，一次又一次地做着一件相同的事。
• He was facing a life of toil and drudgery and vexation.
  摆在他面前的是终身的苦役和折磨。
• A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
  老板使工作枯燥，领袖使工作有趣。
• This drudgery makes me drowsy.
  这乏味的工作让我打瞌睡。
• Electronic information retrieval will remove much of the drudgery of research and leave time for the more interesting.
  电子寻找信息能解除研究中大量辛苦乏味的工作，省下时间做更为有趣的事。
• If something is drudgery, I either drop it or find a way to make it play.
  如果当某件事情变成苦差，我会放弃做这件事情或找一些方法让它变成娱乐。
• The drudgery of your actions shall cast a net within which you shall be trapped.
  你们的行动的苦工将投下一张网，你们会被困在其中。