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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
  洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
• 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。
• 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。
• Are you in love with this drudgery?
  你这么喜欢这份苦差事吗？
• 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。
• 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。