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词汇 menial
释义 menial
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ˈmiː.ni.əl/ us /ˈmiː.ni.əl/
Menial work is boring, makes you feel tired, and is given a low social value: (工作)乏味的,低贱的,不体面的
It's fairly menial work, such as washing dishes and cleaning floors.都是些很枯燥乏味的工作,如洗碗和擦地。
a menial job/task粗活
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menial | American Dictionary


menial
adjective
us/ˈmi·ni·əl/
(of work) needing little skill or education:
a menial job

menial | Business English


menial
adjective
uk /ˈmiːniəl/us
used to describe work that does not need any skills and is badly paid and often boring:
menial jobs/tasks/workThe economic climate has seen overqualified candidates applying for a succession of menial jobs.

Examples of menial


menial
To a man, they stated that work, no matter how menial, kept their mind off their present situation.
Despite these philosophical objections, the majority of citizens and many influential persons did not distinguish between noble and menial income earning activities.
Becoming a skilled laborer was often seen as an alternative to unprofitable and socially disagreeable agricultural work or menial labor.
This would allow a viewer to insert himself in the buildings, rather than as a porter, servant or working class menial.
An employee who performs menial tasks such as running errands and answering phones; an assistant.
Although he worked first as a menial labourer, he was soon selling fruit.
Identification with the most menial members of society brought the individual closest to the highest sphere of art and its powers of subjective transformation.
The life of a soldier was strictly organized around daily routines filled with training and menial labour.
Both shared life in community and took part in many of the same menial tasks considered inappropriate for ladies.
The reality is more likely to be menial work for poor wages.
Each day 1,400 maunds of nightsoil and 350 cart-loads of rubbish left the city through 'the old ancestral system of manual labour by menials'.
Overcoming the view of nursing as a subordinate and menial task has been difficult, especially as some of nursing's traditional elements are strongly reminiscent of domestic work.
Twice the proportion of innovators do not believe that children save adults from menial work, and a substantially smaller proportion believe that adult children help with the work.
They are reduced to the menial task of teaching their clients how to maximize an objective function under predetermined constraints, whatever this function and these constraints may be.
Mann does not discuss the omnipresent plantons, who did various menial tasks.
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