drudge

1 “Women were the slave class that maintained the species,” Firestone wrote, “to free the other half for the business of the world — admittedly often its drudge aspects, but certainly all its creative aspects as well.”

2 Most freelancers have some mix of high-paying drudge work and low-to-no paying interesting work.

大多数自由职业者选择的工作既有一些高薪但枯燥的，也有报酬极低却很有趣的。

3 Who, on a Sunday jaunt to the shORe OR mountains, has not pitied some self-employed drudge?

哪一个星期天到海滨或山上去游览的人不同情那些辛辛苦苦的个体经营者呢？

4 The preceding two hours of Child 44 are drudge work, as if to prove that visiting the Soviet Union at the exhausted end of the Stalin era is no more exciting than living there.

5 She believes it is her lot in life to be an old drudge.

她认为她命里注定一辈子要做苦役。

6 “You know, Samuel Johnson was a reference book editor. He defined a lexicographer, a compiler of dictionaries, as a harmless drudge.”

7 She's the family drudge, poor little soul – a Cinderella without a fairy godmother.

她是家里的苦力, 可怜的小生灵——没有看护神保佑“灰姑娘”.

8 But for one glorious summer in 1973, interns and drudges helped change America — as the cogs turning the wheel that would ultimately result in Richard Nixon’s resignation.

9 Critically, we need to understand that far from being drudges, mothers are, in fact, creating the very course of our species’ future.

10 Unfortunately, her father is still “his usual impenetrable self,” and her sisters can’t see the purpose of drudging up all that ancient unhappiness.

11 When it comes to annotations, a drudge can’t do the job, and a fanatic shouldn’t.

12 How can I let you be a drudge!

我如何能让你是一个做苦工的人!

13 Ultimately, this revolution may just reduce drudge work and the number of billable hours spent on relatively simple tasks, freeing people to focus more on lawyering.

14 “I would not have my wife a drudge,” he wrote.

15 If I've gone from stud to spud, then you've gone from doll to drudge.

如果说我从猛男变成了懒蛋, 那你就是从美女变成了苦工.

16 Classical economists, starting with Adam Smith, had assumed that nine of every 10 people on the planet would continue to, as Edmund Burke wrote, "drudge through life."

17 I don't mind doing some drudge along the way just to take the mind off for a while.

我不介意做只是为了前进的道路上采取了一段时间的心灵了一些做苦工。

18 While the House drudged through a partisan back-and-forth, top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate hatched a deal.

19 For one of the privileges that Pauline insists upon is her right to do the daily drudge work that her mother did, without anyone thinking much of it.

20 I would be content to drudge in earth, easing my heart's disgrace.

我情愿去地里干苦力，来淡化我内心的耻辱。

1 辛苦地工作

fag

2 作苦工

task swink

3 做苦工的人

galley slave grub fag pack horse

4 做苦工

slave sweat break stones navvy grub fag

5 服贱役者

slave

6 单调乏味

unvaried

7 苦工

toil peon navvy fag slave travail drudgery moil swink hodman