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

I suffer through drudgery every day.
每天我都在服苦役。
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams.
即使社会上充满了虚伪，劳苦与碎梦。
Automating processes can remove unnecessary drudgery, but should never be a way of escaping due diligence.
自动备份过程能够去除不必要的枯燥工作，但是不应因此而变得懒惰。
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。
This drudgery makes me drowsy.
这乏味的工作让我打瞌睡。
Boredom and drudgery are evil.
无聊而单调的工作是有害的。
Electronic information retrieval will remove much of the drudgery of research and leave time for the more interesting.
电子寻找信息能解除研究中大量辛苦乏味的工作，省下时间做更为有趣的事。
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。
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。
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。