drudgery / ˈdrʌdʒ ə ri /

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drudgery 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural drudg·er·ies.

  1. menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.

drudgery 近义词

n. 名词 noun

hard, tedious work

更多drudgery例句

  1. Rather, they hope to speed up programming and remove some of the drudgery.
  2. In the past year, there has been a tendency to blame our tiredness on the drudgery of living through a pandemic — the persistent fear, the loneliness, the grief and the locked-down days that bleed one into another.
  3. In postwar Britain, a weariness with rationing and austerity helps to explain women’s delight in transformations and the idea of release from domestic drudgery.
  4. Trusting that work to a robot means saving a human from drudgery on the best of days, and from tragedy on the worst ones.
  5. The idea that fame could be an escape—from drudgery, dues-paying and, in no small number of workplaces, abuse—predates Instagram by at least a century.
  6. We coo over how cute our cat is and minimize the drudgery of cleaning the litter box.
  7. Is it right to speak of “finding meaningful work” when available work might necessarily involve drudgery and worse?
  8. This single invention liberated countless millions from needless drudgery.
  9. That is said with zero disrespect for the hard work, and often drudgery, that those jobs entail.
  10. For many Afghan women, a life of violence, drudgery and ill health is the best they can expect.
  11. A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.
  12. Practice lends me great dexterity in the work, but the hours of drudgery drag with heavy heel.
  13. He was of a white color, that seemed to fit him rather for rare festal occasions than for constant drudgery.
  14. And with every day of such drudgery the heights of music and literature seemed further away and more unattainable.
  15. All drudgery disappears in a rosy glow of unexpected, unique, and stimulating conditions.