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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
  洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
• Boredom and drudgery are evil.
  无聊而单调的工作是有害的。