drudgery
n. 苦工,贱役,单调沉闷的工作
You use drudgery to refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done.
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。
1. hard monotonous routine work
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。
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.
Labor - saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.
许多节省劳力的设备使妇女摆脱掉乏味的厨房杂役.
If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
只要兴起发光, 苦差便在神的光中变相.
She was living a hole - and - corner existence of daily drudgery.
她每日过着繁忙而乏味的生活.