查询词典 drudgery

The interminable and vexatious speech the politican is addressing us must be conceived as a drudgery because we know we are loath to hear it.

听那政治家对我们做冗长的演讲肯定被认为是一件头疼的苦差事，因为我们知道我们不情愿听。

To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

让真正的天才在学校下苦功，等于让赛马拉脚踏车。

It was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk; it is now at best but the reverse of what it was, a tree turned upside-down, the branches on the earth, and the root in the air; it is now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself; at length, worn to the stumps in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out of doors or condemned to the last use - of kindling a fire.

如今变了样，却还有人自作聪明，想靠手艺同大自然竞争，拿来一束枯枝捆在它那已无树液的身上，结果是枉费心机，不过颠倒了它原来的位置，使它枝干朝地，根梢向天，成为一株头冲下的树，归在任何干苦活的婆子的手里使用，从此受命运摆布，把别人打扫干净，自己却落得个又脏又臭，而在女仆们手里折腾多次之后，最后只剩下一支根株了，于是被扔出门外，或者作为引火的柴禾烧掉了。

It was full sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs, but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk, it is now at best but the reverse of what it was ,a tree turned upside down, the branches on the earth,and the root in the air, it is now handled by every dirty wench, condemned to do her drudgery, and, by a capricious kind of fate, destined to make other things clean, and be nasty itself, at length, worn to the stumps in the service of the maids, it is either thrown out of doors or condemned to the last use —kindling afire.

如今变了样，却还有人自作聪明，想靠手艺同大自然竞争，拿来一束枯枝捆在它那已无树液的身上，结果枉费心机，不过颠倒了它原来的位置，使它枝干朝地，根梢向天，成为一株头冲下的树，归在任何干苦活的脏婆子的手里使用，从此受命运摆布。把别人打扫干净，自己却落得个又脏又臭，而在女仆们手里折腾多次之后，最后只剩下根株了，于是被扔出门外，或者作为引火的柴火烧掉了

Generally speaking, a CAM system will take the tediousness and drudgery out of programming.

一般说来， CAM 系统能消除编程的乏味和辛苦。

I have said it often enough, but I must say it once again, since it is so much a part of my case for handicraft, that so long as man allows his daily work to be mere unrelieved drudgery he will seek happiness in vain.

他们之所以懒洋洋地也承认美有存在的价值，纯粹出于一种惯例，一种旧时代观念的残余，在那个时代，美对于每个人都是必需的。

Consider what is involved in this matter (so lightly touched upon and dismissed) of music or water-colour painting or fine writing, what years of serious application, of drudgery at the keyboard, the easel, or the writing-desk.

想想吧，音乐、绘画和写作（这些被他们轻描淡写，一笔带过的艺术），要在这些方面取得如此成就，需要在琴键，画布，或是写字台前进行怎样的勤学苦练。

There are situations in which working 40 hours is pure drudgery and others in which the team has to be pried away from a 60-hour work week.

在一些情况下，工作40小时太劳累，而在另外一些组里，甚至需要一周60个工作时。

In a country that idealizes the good life, the reality of drudgery and waiting for the monthly pay check, or of solitude in retirement, may be harder to accept.

在这样一个将优质生活理想化的国家，繁琐的工作现实、等待每月薪水，或者是退休后的百无聊赖，都更难以接受。

Which writhes with the drudgery of modern existence

你淬然降临在灰蒙蒙的林间空地

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。