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

• 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。
• 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。
• In so doing, it removes the drudgery from JDBC programming so that you can focus on queries and their results.
  这么做之后，就消除了JDBC编程的繁琐，从而使您可以把注意力放在查询和查询结果上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。