释义 |
hack-work|ˈhækwɜːk| [hack n.3] Work done by a hack or hired drudge; esp. literary work which a person is hired by a publisher, editor, or other, to do.
1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 60 Trade hack-work is of course out of the question. 1875Hamerton Intell. Life v. ii. (1876) 182 Literary hack-work. 1881Masson in Macm. Mag. XLV. 159 Such articles of hack-work as might be intrusted conveniently to an unknown young man on the spot. |