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

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams.
即使社会上充满了虚伪，劳苦与碎梦。
I suffer through drudgery every day.
每天我都在服苦役。
Boredom and drudgery are evil.
无聊而单调的工作是有害的。
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。
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。
Since its inception, it has been designed to shield developers from the drudgery of developing a persistence infrastructure.
从一开始，它就被设计成让开发人员逃避开发持久性基础设施的苦差事。
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。
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。
This drudgery makes me drowsy.
这乏味的工作让我打瞌睡。
In so doing, it removes the drudgery from JDBC programming so that you can focus on queries and their results.
这么做之后，就消除了JDBC编程的繁琐，从而使您可以把注意力放在查询和查询结果上。