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

• Why do humans choose to live off of one another enslaving others to drudgery so that one can be "privileged"?
  为什么人类选择了依靠彼此奴役他人做苦工而使某些人成为特权者来生活？
• 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。
• 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。
• Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
  洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
• I suffer through drudgery every day.
  每天我都在服苦役。
• To promote the development of the development zone, and a staff members have more drudgery and refine system, a vigil for more than a year, hard work, and achieved great success.
  为推动开发区的发展，他和开发区干部职工一道，熬更守夜苦干，细化制度，勤奋工作，一年多来，成绩斐然。
• 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。
• It has also substantially reduced both our own drudgery and our dependence on that of others.
  它还明显减少了我们自己的繁琐劳动，以及我们对其他人劳动的依赖。
• 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。