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drudgery

/druhj-uh-ree/US // ˈdrʌdʒ ə ri //UK // (ˈdrʌdʒərɪ) //

苦差事,苦役,苦力,苦差

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural drudg·er·ies.

    • : menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.

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Examples

  • Rather, they hope to speed up programming and remove some of the drudgery.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Trusting that work to a robot means saving a human from drudgery on the best of days, and from tragedy on the worst ones.

  • 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.

  • We coo over how cute our cat is and minimize the drudgery of cleaning the litter box.

  • Is it right to speak of “finding meaningful work” when available work might necessarily involve drudgery and worse?

  • This single invention liberated countless millions from needless drudgery.

  • That is said with zero disrespect for the hard work, and often drudgery, that those jobs entail.

  • For many Afghan women, a life of violence, drudgery and ill health is the best they can expect.

  • A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.

  • Practice lends me great dexterity in the work, but the hours of drudgery drag with heavy heel.

  • He was of a white color, that seemed to fit him rather for rare festal occasions than for constant drudgery.

  • And with every day of such drudgery the heights of music and literature seemed further away and more unattainable.

  • All drudgery disappears in a rosy glow of unexpected, unique, and stimulating conditions.