chore

英 [tʃɔː] 美[tʃɔr]

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复数: chores;

chore 杂事

来自PIE*sker, 转，打转，词源同charlady, ring. 即在外围打杂的人。

1. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;: "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

chore (n.): 1751, American English, variant of char, from Middle English cherre "odd job," from Old English cerr, cierr "turn, change, time, occasion, affair business."
Chore, a corruption of char, is an English word, still used in many parts of England, as a char-man, a char-woman; but in America, it is perhaps confined to New England. It signifies small domestic jobs of work, and its place cannot be supplied by any other single word in the language. [Noah Webster, "Dissertations on the English Language," 1789]

For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children.

Fortunately, the chore of leaf sweeping is well worth the effort.: 幸运的是，干清扫落叶这个活儿是值得的。

He is prepared to make a living by accepting any remunerative chore.: 为了生计,他准备接受任何有酬报的杂活.

Making pasta by hand with a rolling pin can be a real chore.: 用擀面杖擀意大利面会是个非常枯燥乏味的活儿。

Disliking this chore and relieved that it would end soon, he continued fielding questions.: 他一边暗自庆幸这件讨厌的差事快完了, 一边继续回答问题.

Anyway, nowadays, reading the newspapers have become a mentally draining chore.: 但是, 现在读报纸已经变成一种苦差事了.

The ritual will ease the transition to the unwelcome chore.: 这套规律可以使你易于过渡到你不喜欢的工作上去.

His headache has affected his ability to do household chore.: 里满说《他的头痛已经影响他做一些家务事》.

But a wide - open floor adds only a few seconds the vacuuming chore.: 但是,广泛的开放式购买只有几秒钟的吸尘苦差事.