drudgery

英 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]

美 [ˈdrʌdʒəri]

n. 单调乏味的苦差事; 繁重无聊的工作

复数：drudgeries　

BNC.19455 / COCA.20108

牛津词典

noun

N-UNCOUNT 单调乏味的苦差事;无聊的工作
You usedrudgeryto refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done.
1. 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。

noun

Boredom and drudgery are evil.
无聊而单调的工作是有害的。
The authors offer useful tips to take the drudgery out of eating and living right.
本书提供的有用建议使得遵循正确的饮食和生活之道不再是件苦差事。
The drudgery of your actions shall cast a net within which you shall be trapped.
你们的行动的苦工将投下一张网，你们会被困在其中。
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。
I thought feminism was about liberating women from enforced domestic and maternal drudgery.
我想妇女运动目的是使妇女从家庭及做母亲的辛劳中解放出来。
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。
Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
Many caregivers told me that their experience was dissolving, through simple drudgery, their fear of death.
许多照顾者们告诉我，通过简单的劳累，他们的经历正在消除他们对死亡的恐惧。
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams.
即使社会上充满了虚伪，劳苦与碎梦。
The creative spark that had been buried under dishes, diapers and drudgery now flamed into life.
一直埋没于杯盘碟子，尿布和杂务之间的创作火花现在迸发出生命之光。