a drudge
可数名词，指长期做枯燥卑微工作的人；单数形式前需要加冠词。
She felt like a drudge, scrubbing the same floors every day.
她觉得自己像个苦工，每天擦着同样的地板。
做卑贱苦工的人。；做苦工的人
A person who does hard, menial, or tedious work.
做卑贱苦工的人。
A person who works in a low servile job.
After years of working as a drudge in the factory, he finally saved enough money to start his own business.
在工厂做了多年苦工后，他终于攒够了钱自己创业。
用法提示：drudge 作为名词，指做苦力的人
The interns were treated like drudges, doing all the boring paperwork.
实习生们被当作苦力，做所有乏味的文书工作。
用法提示：drudge 作为名词，形容被强迫做苦工的人
She felt like a drudge, constantly cleaning and cooking without any appreciation.
她觉得自己像个苦工，不停地打扫和做饭却得不到任何感激。
用法提示：drudge 作为名词，描述从事繁重家务的人
可数名词，指长期做枯燥卑微工作的人；单数形式前需要加冠词。
She felt like a drudge, scrubbing the same floors every day.
她觉得自己像个苦工，每天擦着同样的地板。
as 后接名词说明身份，强调所干的是被视为低贱的苦活。
He worked as a drudge in the hotel kitchen for three years.
他在旅馆厨房里当了三年苦工。
被动结构 treat sb as a drudge 表示把某人当苦工使唤，复数用 drudges。
The new assistants were treated as drudges and given all the dull tasks.
新来的助理被当成苦工使唤，所有枯燥的活都交给他们。
grammar · medium
易错句子Cleaning the office every night is such a drudge.
正确表达Cleaning the office every night is such drudgery.
drudge 是可数名词，指“做苦工的人”，不能指“苦差事”本身；表示枯燥繁重的工作要用不可数名词 drudgery，因此不能说 such a drudge。
grammar · medium
易错句子My father is drudge in a factory.
正确表达My father is a drudge in a factory.
drudge 是单数可数名词，表示身份时需要不定冠词 a；汉语名词没有冠词，学习者容易漏掉。
grammar · medium
易错句子He is one of the drudge in the kitchen.
正确表达He is one of the drudges in the kitchen.
one of the 后面必须接复数名词，drudge 的复数是 drudges；汉语不强制标记复数，容易误用单数。
drudge 指做苦工的人，是可数名词，复数 drudges；drudgery 指苦差事本身，不可数，不能用来指人。
menial 作名词多指家仆、杂役，且更常作形容词修饰工作；drudge 强调长期从事卑贱繁重劳动的人。
grudge 意为“怨恨、嫌隙”，与 drudge 仅拼写和发音相近，意义完全不同，不能互相替代。
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