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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
  老板使工作枯燥，领袖使工作有趣。