drudgery

• n. 苦工，苦差事

来自drudge, 苦工。

1. hard monotonous routine work

drudgery (n.)

1540s, from drudge + -ery.

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。

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He was facing a life of toil and drudgery and vexation.

摆在他面前的是终身的苦役和折磨.

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Labor - saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.

许多节省劳力的设备使妇女摆脱掉乏味的厨房杂役.

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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.

只要兴起发光, 苦差便在神的光中变相.

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She was living a hole - and - corner existence of daily drudgery.

她每日过着繁忙而乏味的生活.

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Were it for work and drudgery it would be endlessly long.

若是为工作和劳役,生命就变得无尽的漫长.

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Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.

洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房.

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It became drudgery , says Mr. McKay.

麦凯说,公司的会议变得很乏味.

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Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery.

多数无所事事的阔佬免遭从事单调乏味工作之苦,但代价是莫名其妙的无聊.

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The test of a vocation of the love of the drudgery it involves.

是否热爱一种职业就是看是否喜欢其中的劳苦.

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But personal growth ( the natural process that creates a successful life ) is not drudgery.

但是个人的成长 ( 创造成功生活的自然过程 ) 不是干苦工.

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I am afraid that I shall find it drudgery to teach music to beginner.

我恐怕会觉得教初学者音乐是个单调沉闷的工作.

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A life of drudgery, of deformed spines, of chronic arthritis, of severed hands.

生活只是苦力 、 脊柱变形 、 慢性关节炎和残断的双手.

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They enjoy collaborating with others who are smart and talented and work is no longer drudgery.

他们喜欢和那些聪明有才能的人一起合作,工作不再繁重乏味的苦差.

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Technology a lot of the drudgery from our lives, and free us up to relax.

技术进步减轻了我们生活中的许多劳作, 我们当得以轻松.

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