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 bad news is that it will probably not be able to free my colleagues or me entirely from the drudgery of working for a living.
  坏消息是它无法将我和我的同行们从努力工作以求生计的苦海中解脱出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Since its inception, it has been designed to shield developers from the drudgery of developing a persistence infrastructure.
  从一开始，它就被设计成让开发人员逃避开发持久性基础设施的苦差事。
• 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。
• The creative spark that had been buried under dishes, diapers and drudgery now flamed into life.
  一直埋没于杯盘碟子，尿布和杂务之间的创作火花现在迸发出生命之光。
• 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。
• In other cases, the wider use of simple machines could reduce drudgery and improve efficiency.
  在其他情况下，更广泛地使用简单机械可以减少单调的苦工并改善效率。