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 drudgery ['drʌdʒərɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 苦差事, 苦工

  1. Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
    洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
  2. Labor-saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.
    许多节省劳力的设备于妇女摆脱掉乏味的厨房杂役。
  3. 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。


drudgery
[ noun ]
hard monotonous routine work
<noun.act>


Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\, n.
The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor;
ignoble or slavish toil.

The drudgery of penning definitions. --Macaulay.

Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery
and with out sorrow. --Locke.

Syn: See {Toll}.

  1. But such bad news is becoming all too common for the discerning comic reader, who in the recent years has lost Larson's "The Far Side" and Trudeau's "Doonesbury" for extended periods while their creators escaped the day-to-day drudgery.
  2. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Women till the poor land, toil in sweatshops and perform the other drudgery that moves Haiti's meager economy, but the choice of a woman as president in March was their first real taste of power.
  3. So what if Eve, who had dreamed of being a torch singer, grew so bored by the drudgery of suburban housewifery that she would throw plates against the wall to remind herself she was alive?
  4. That was drudgery." Isaacs, director of personnel and administration for the Guard's headquarters, wagered the officers in August 1988 that the battalion couldn't increase its numbers.
  5. To the average lawmaker, the budget process is synonymous with drudgery.
  6. Singing is drudgery and the more popular one gets, the harder it is to continue, says mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
  7. It would free housewives of drudgery and fill factories with a tireless steel-collar work force.
  8. Americans, they contend, are willing to do more but want more in return, without the pain, sacrifice and drudgery associated with work in the past.
  9. "Five years later, the drudgery of renewal continues and isn't yet close to its objectives," the pro-reform Moscow News commented.
  10. But taking care of the big picture, not the drudgery, typifies the Scanlon method.
  11. Life on the floating factories is often described as drudgery.
  12. "We try not to let the everyday drudgery of business, bookkeeping bring us down on our creativity.
  13. There is no reason the knowledge economy must lead to drudgery. In fact, the assembly-line mentality catching on in some offices is disappearing in the factories, where it began.
  14. The hours were long, but it wasn't all drudgery.
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