| 词汇 | thankless |
| 释义 | thankless adjective uk /ˈθæŋk.ləs/ us /ˈθæŋk.ləs/ A thankless job is difficult or unpleasant, and people do not thank you for it: 出力不讨好的；徒劳无功的 Keeping the boys' rooms tidy is a thankless task/job.保持男孩们的房间整洁是件吃力不讨好的事。 Serious and unpleasant abominable abominably abysmal abysmally apocalyptic fraught frightful from hellidiom fun ghastliness not be all fun and gamesidiom noxiously objectionable objectionably odious unpleasantness unpretty unspeakable unspeakably unsupportable thankless | American Dictionarythankless adjective us/ˈθæŋk·ləs/ unlikely to be appreciated: a thankless task Note:usually said about a job or some work Examples of thanklessthankless As she discovered, serving the region from within was sometimes a thankless task. This might end up being a thankless task, given the need to deflate egos not accustomed to having their laboratories turned upside-down by outsiders. Of course, efficacy in changing society is a thankless criterion to apply to theatre because it is almost impossible to measure and document. The thankless and probably fruitless effort to estimate the proportion of oats eaten by people and horses can be sidestepped by simply providing the limits of the argument. While nationalists of every ideological hue celebrated this economic demarcation, the less emotive civil servants were left with the thankless task of pursuing this policy to its logical conclusions. It is largely a thankless task; he grudges nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But we must remember that it is a thankless task being chairman of such a corporation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They undertake a thankless task, and they probably do it better than any other police force in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The task of the peacemaker is often a thankless one, and it is so in this case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have discharged a thankless, painful, costly, laborious, inconvenient task for more than a quarter of a century with a very great measure of success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One pilot said that he was pursuing a thankless task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The work of a hospital like this sometimes appears to the staff to be thankless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think we should pay tribute to the people in the industry, at all levels, in what is only too often a thankless task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certainly, it can only have been a thankless task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think they have a most thankless task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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