drudgery
/ˈdrʌdʒəri/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈdrʌdʒəri/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈdrəj-rē ˈdrə-jə-rē/ (ame, mw)
drudgery — 名詞
1. work that is tiring, repetitive, and gives you little interest or pleasure.
苦差事
又累又乏味的重複工作
work that is tiring, repetitive, and gives you little interest or pleasure.
After three hours of data entry, Ife sighed at the drudgery.
做了三小時資料輸入後，Ife 對這種苦差事直嘆氣。
hours of drudgery
Cleaning every seat after the concert turned summer work into drudgery.
演唱會後要把每個座位都擦乾淨，讓暑期工變成苦差事。
turn work into drudgery
For Sahil, copying receipts by hand was the worst office drudgery.
對 Sahil 來說，手抄收據是辦公室裡最煩人的苦差事。
The robot took over the drudgery of sorting bolts at the factory.
那台機器人接手了工廠裡分類螺栓的苦差事。
- toil
stresses hard effort and may sound more literary, not always boring
- grind
more informal and often used for the exhausting routine of daily life
- grunt work
informal and especially used for low-status tasks given to junior people
文法句型
the drudgery of + task/-ing
hours of drudgery
turn work into drudgery
用法筆記
Usually uncountable and often follows 'the drudgery of' before a task noun or -ing form. It normally refers to repetitive, low-interest work done over time, not one difficult task finished once.