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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• All it takes is a roof, a gutter and a tank to lift the poor out of drudgery.
  让穷人摆脱苦工只需要一个屋顶、一个檐槽和一个水箱。
• 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。
• Why do humans choose to live off of one another enslaving others to drudgery so that one can be "privileged"?
  为什么人类选择了依靠彼此奴役他人做苦工而使某些人成为特权者来生活？
• 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。
• 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。
• Automating processes can remove unnecessary drudgery, but should never be a way of escaping due diligence.
  自动备份过程能够去除不必要的枯燥工作，但是不应因此而变得懒惰。