英语词汇“drudgery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	drudgery
释义	Trends of drudgery View usage for: drudgery (drʌdʒəri) uncountable noun You use drudgery to refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done. People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives. Synonyms: labour, grind [informal], sweat [informal], hard work More Synonyms of drudgery drudgery in British English (ˈdrʌdʒərɪ) nounWord forms: plural -eries hard, menial, and monotonous work drudgery in American English (ˈdrʌdʒəri) nounWord forms: plural ˈdrudgeries work that is hard, menial, or tiresome Word origin see drudge & -ery Examples of 'drudgery' in a sentence drudgery Is your house riven by arguments over the domestic drudgery? Times, Sunday Times (2010) Party management between elections is regarded as sheer drudgery without reward. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It gives a real insight into the sheer drudgery and misery behind pop success. The Sun (2011) Music offers an escape from the drudgery of camp life. Times, Sunday Times (2015) By chance an opportunity had presented itself to escape from the drudgery he dreaded. Adam Sisman The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (2006) Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) Women's domestic lives were sheer drudgery. Times, Sunday Times (2014) What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement? Times, Sunday Times (2013) Their endless domestic drudgery made a sham of the notion that women had the time and energy for the "higher things of life. Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995) Their primary option for escape from drudgery at home is to take a job - where they do more work. Larson, Reed & Richards, Maryse H. Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents (1994) She looks appalled when I suggest that there is an element of drudgery to the work. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The invention of the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine transformed not just daily domestic drudgery, but the layout of our homes as well. Times, Sunday Times (2007) (noun) in the sense of labour Definition uninteresting work that must be done the drudgery of everyday life Synonyms labour the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting grind (informal) Life continues to be a terrible grind for the ordinary person. sweat (informal) hard work slavery chore fag (informal) toil It is only toil which gives meaning to things. slog There is little to show for two years of hard slog. donkey-work sweated labour menial labour skivvying (British) Additional synonyms in the sense of grind Definition hard or tedious work Life continues to be a terrible grind for the ordinary person. Synonyms hard work (informal), labour, effort, task, sweat (informal), chore, toil, drudgery in the sense of slog Definition long exhausting work There is little to show for two years of hard slog. Synonyms work, labour, toil, industry, grind (informal), effort, struggle, pains, sweat (informal), painstaking, exertion, donkey-work, blood, sweat, and tears (informal) in the sense of sweat Definition hard work or effort Synonyms labour, effort, chore, toil, drudgery, backbreaking task Nearby words of drudgery drub drubbing drudge drudgery drug drug addict drugged Synonyms of 'drudgery' drudgery Explore 'drudgery' in the dictionary
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