drudgery
英 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]
美 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]
n. 单调乏味的苦差事; 繁重无聊的工作
复数：drudgeries
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.- 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。
- People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.
英英释义
noun
- hard monotonous routine work
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Many caregivers told me that their experience was dissolving, through simple drudgery, their fear of death.
许多照顾者们告诉我，通过简单的劳累，他们的经历正在消除他们对死亡的恐惧。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - This drudgery makes me drowsy.
这乏味的工作让我打瞌睡。 - 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。