chore

英 [tʃɔː(r)]

美 [tʃɔːr]

n.  日常事务; 例行工作; 令人厌烦的任务; 乏味无聊的工作

复数：chores　

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Collins.1 / BNC.9514 / COCA.6028

牛津词典

noun

• 日常事务；例行工作
  a task that you do regularly
  1. doing the household/domestic chores
     干家务杂活
• 令人厌烦的任务；乏味无聊的工作
  an unpleasant or boring task
  1. Shopping's a real chore for me.
     对我来说，购物真是件苦差事。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 杂务;琐事
  Achoreis a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.
  1. She sees exercise primarily as an unavoidable chore...
     她基本上把锻炼看做是不得不做的琐事。
  2. Making pasta by hand with a rolling pin can be a real chore.
     用擀面杖擀意大利面会是个非常枯燥乏味的活儿。
• N-COUNT 家务活;家庭琐事
  Choresare tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home.
  1. My husband and I both go out to work so we share the household chores.
     我和丈夫都出去工作，所以我们家务活分摊。

英英释义

noun

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
  1. estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
  2. the job of repairing the engine took several hours
  3. the endless task of classifying the samples
  4. the farmer's morning chores
  Synonym:jobtask

双语例句

• Are you passionate about your work or is it a chore?
  你对你的工作是否充满激情还是工作是你的负担？
• Its surprising how much better you can feel after getting a long-standing chore off your to-do list.
  把堆积已久的杂事从你的必做清单上清楚掉，那种感觉会好到让你自己都惊讶。
• Fortunately, the chore of leaf sweeping is well worth the effort.
  幸运的是，干清扫落叶这个活儿是值得的。
• If I'm finding this the sad chore.
  如果我觉得这是个，没有愉悦的过程。
• My husband likes it done every day, so he gets stuck with that little chore.
  而我丈夫喜欢每天洗衣服，所以他就固定负责洗衣服这一家务。
• Swapping variables is something of a daily chore in every programmer's life.
  交换变量是在每个编程人员的生活中每天都要做的事。
• The chore fell to him.
  这项家务活落到了他头上。
• Thank him for taking out the garbage, even if it is his only chore.
  感谢他去倒垃圾，即使这是他做的唯一家务。
• It was a methodical, unexciting chore.
  那是一份按部就班、枯燥乏味的无聊差事。
• Besides, the chore of gathering data for someone else can feel demeaning, even counterproductive.
  除此之外，为其他人收集数据的杂活会让人觉得贬低身份，甚至起反作用。