| 词汇 | drudgery |
| 释义 | drudgery noun[ U ] uk /ˈdrʌdʒ.ər.i/ us /ˈdrʌdʒ.ɚ.i/ hard boring work: 辛苦乏味的工作 the drudgery of housework繁重乏味的家务 Synonym grind Work, working and the workplace act as something all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom assignment bandh be at workidiom grind hoop housekeeping in the line of dutyidiom induction industry job join dutyidiom moonlight slave slog slouch spadework subtask sweat drudgery | American Dictionarydrudgery noun[ U ] us/ˈdrʌdʒ·ə·ri/ hard, boring work: Cleaning the oven is sheer drudgery. Examples of drudgerydrudgery Other factors influenced this development, including the desire of wealthy households to avoid drudgery and engage in conspicuous consumption. They call on a matter of fact directness that seeks only to remove manual drudgery. They could not enforce drudgery, or condemn me on account of my color to a life of servitude. Machines like the modern combine harvester mean that much of the dust, dirt and drudgery of earlier farm work has gone. Alternatively, she may see household management as drudgery which, she hopes, will be diluted by her husband's help after retirement. Our point here is that this relates squarely to the ontology problem, and there is much drudgery to address the legacy software integration problem. Freelancers wanted to escape drudgery and concentrate on assignments they chose. Women may have found in such extra-marital relationships a degree of solace and escape from everyday drudgery. However, as the number of actions or records increases, such direct manipulation quickly becomes a repetitive drudgery. Women from poor farming households provide unpaid labour and suffer the drudgery of hand weeding to obtain higher yields. The key issue of note here is that there is much unavoidable drudgery involved in solving the information discovery problem today. Some people exaggerated the drudgery of their lives, expecting that outside supporters should resolve every problem. The "drudgery and sordid everlasting cares" (13) of a meagre household and their courtship are shadowed by concerns that they must "learn to be economical" (44). Rassundari's happy assessment of her life as a wife and a householder has to be read with her description of back-breaking drudgery which was a central feature of that life. Is it fair to the dairy farmer to expect him to go on, doomed to a life of drudgery with such small financial reward? 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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