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

• The authors offer useful tips to take the drudgery out of eating and living right.
  本书提供的有用建议使得遵循正确的饮食和生活之道不再是件苦差事。
• All it takes is a roof, a gutter and a tank to lift the poor out of drudgery.
  让穷人摆脱苦工只需要一个屋顶、一个檐槽和一个水箱。
• 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。
• 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。
• We cannot hope for cheap food, but we can improve skills, boost productivity, reduce drudgery and enhance people's quality of life.
  我们不能把希望放在廉价食品上，但是我们可以改善技能，促进生产力，减少单调的苦工，并提高人们的生活质量。
• This drudgery makes me drowsy.
  这乏味的工作让我打瞌睡。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.
  他的一生都在做毫无意义的烦人的苦差事。