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单词 drudgery
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Definition of drudgery in English:

drudgery

noun ˈdrʌdʒəriˈdrədʒ(ə)ri
mass noun
  • Hard menial or dull work.

    domestic drudgery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The 6th is concerned with drudgery and labour and holds no promise of advancement.
    • My reason is that the removal of the time-consuming and tiring drudgery has produced a paradox.
    • Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
    • As women become liberated from domestic drudgery, are they in danger of losing something fundamental?
    • But the elimination of drudgery does not end there for people dubbed ‘service junkies’.
    • When a worker is burnt, it's a reminder that the workday drudgery, for Dad, could be fatal.
    • Eddie watched the training drudgery from the shelter of the pavilion.
    • In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them.
    • The physical drudgery involved in the Tour is the same for any cyclist, but Millar could express it in graphic terms.
    • There will be no toil, assignments, chores, no drudgery or daily efforts.
    • The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home.
    • Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day.
    • In as far as farm drudgery and prison could offer a good life at all, things weren't bad compared to life in British jails at the time.
    • At the prospect of spending the rest of her life in this cycle of inhuman drudgery, suicide became a genuine consideration.
    • Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
    • We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
    • They both point to the physical drudgery of housework - the relentless nappy-changing, cooking and cleaning.
    • Exercise can become pure drudgery when it's never accompanied by a playful or recreational aspect.
    • Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery.
    • Ash is a star player, one of the best in her field, escaping from the realities of life's drudgery into the confines of this hi-tech wargame.
    Synonyms
    hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard/sweated labour, chores, plodding
    slavery
    informal skivvying, grind, slog
    British informal graft
    Australian/New Zealand informal (hard) yakka
    archaic travail, moil
 
 

Definition of drudgery in US English:

drudgery

nounˈdrəj(ə)rēˈdrədʒ(ə)ri
  • Hard menial or dull work.

    domestic drudgery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the elimination of drudgery does not end there for people dubbed ‘service junkies’.
    • The 6th is concerned with drudgery and labour and holds no promise of advancement.
    • Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
    • As women become liberated from domestic drudgery, are they in danger of losing something fundamental?
    • Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery.
    • There will be no toil, assignments, chores, no drudgery or daily efforts.
    • At the prospect of spending the rest of her life in this cycle of inhuman drudgery, suicide became a genuine consideration.
    • My reason is that the removal of the time-consuming and tiring drudgery has produced a paradox.
    • We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
    • Eddie watched the training drudgery from the shelter of the pavilion.
    • In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them.
    • Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
    • Ash is a star player, one of the best in her field, escaping from the realities of life's drudgery into the confines of this hi-tech wargame.
    • The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home.
    • Exercise can become pure drudgery when it's never accompanied by a playful or recreational aspect.
    • In as far as farm drudgery and prison could offer a good life at all, things weren't bad compared to life in British jails at the time.
    • When a worker is burnt, it's a reminder that the workday drudgery, for Dad, could be fatal.
    • The physical drudgery involved in the Tour is the same for any cyclist, but Millar could express it in graphic terms.
    • They both point to the physical drudgery of housework - the relentless nappy-changing, cooking and cleaning.
    • Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day.
    Synonyms
    hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding
 
 
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