Word · CEFR C2 · Frequency #19455
drudgery
苦差事；苦工
hard, monotonous, routine work
- 1.
Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
令人疲惫的、繁琐的工作
- 2.
hard monotonous routine work
艰苦单调的例行工作
令人疲惫的、繁琐的工作；艰苦单调的例行工作；苦差事；苦工
In use
After years of office drudgery, she finally started her own bakery.
He hated the daily drudgery of cleaning and cooking.
The job involves a lot of drudgery, but the pay is good.
the drudgery of [noun/verb-ing]
常用定冠词the，后接of短语说明苦差事的内容。
She was tired of the drudgery of daily chores.
她厌倦了日常琐事的苦差事。
[be] drudgery
描述某事物单调乏味、令人厌倦。
For many, housework is sheer drudgery.
对许多人来说，家务活纯粹是苦差事。
Common mistakes
I drudgery every day.I do drudgery every day.
Connections
Collocations
- household drudgery
- 家务苦差事
- Modern appliances have reduced household drudgery.现代家电减少了家务苦差事。
- daily drudgery
- 日常单调乏味的苦工
- He tried to make the daily drudgery more interesting.他努力让日常单调乏味的苦工变得更有趣。
- endless drudgery
- 无休止的苦差事
- The work felt like endless drudgery.这工作感觉像是无休止的苦差事。
- mindless drudgery
- 机械乏味的苦差事
- Data entry can be mindless drudgery.数据录入可能是机械乏味的苦差事。
- sheer drudgery
- 十足的苦差事
- Cleaning all those rooms was sheer drudgery.打扫所有这些房间简直是十足的苦差事。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
想象一个人绑着头巾，在尘土里反复搬砖、洗地，辛劳而单调——这种苦差事就是 drudgery。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话中谈论繁琐工作、书面描述工作性质、讨论家务或杂务 drudgery 指令人疲惫、单调乏味的工作，通常带有负面色彩，多用于口语和书面语中对工作性质的描述，比较常见于“a life of drudgery”这类表达。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Surgery and perjury rhyme with each other (/ɜːrdʒəri/), but none of these words rhymes with drudgery, whose stressed vowel is /ʌ/. Beware the spelling trap: drudgery and surgery share the ending -gery, while perjury spells the same sound -jury, and sorcery/grocery use -cery with a different sound /səri/.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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