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单词 drudgery
释义
drudgery
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n

If you’ve ever had to do the laundry, wash the dishes, make the meals, change the bedding, vacuum the house, and clean the bathrooms day after day, you’ve experienced drudgery. Drudgery is hard, mindless, backbreaking work.
When you say the word drudgery, you can almost feel the hard, plodding work that it describes. You have to put some effort into saying the dr- sound. Then, as soon as you get through the breathy -u-, you’ve got two more hard sounds in -dg- and -er- before you get another break with the final vowel sound. Just as you might drag yourself doing those repetitive, grinding chores, you have to drag your way through pronouncing the word.
WORD FAMILY
drudgery: drudgeries+/drudge: drudged, drudgery, drudges, drudging/drudging: drudgingly
USAGE EXAMPLES
He finds training to be drudgery and even racing brings as much apprehension as joy.
New York Times(Dec 28, 2016)
According to a report by Accenture, artificial intelligence will free people from the drudgery of administrative tasks in many industries.
The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016)
“Part of the fun of all this is escaping the drudgery of real life,” Hamill says.
The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016)
n hard monotonous routine work
Syn|Hyper
donkeywork, grind, plodding
labor, labour, toil
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
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