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grunt work

干活,干活儿,干活的,干活儿的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.

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Examples

  • On another level, it’s about the gardens themselves—self-contained units that automate much of the grunt work of gardening and empower gardeners to grow their own produce year-round, regardless of the temperature outside.

  • Moving apps onto your new device isn’t difficult, but it does require a little grunt work.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

  • So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

  • To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

  • The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

  • In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

  • The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.