drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒəri]

例句:

• The first linger away their lives in perpetual drudgery.
  来自T. Brown
• He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.
  他的一生都在做毫无意义的烦人的苦差事.
  
• People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.
  人们想摆脱日常生活中单调乏味的工作。
  
• The Prince of Darkness does not condescend to such cheap drudgery.
  这种下贱的差使,根本用不着劳“黑暗之王”的大驾.
  
• His work must not be made distasteful to him through too much drudgery.
  来自J. Ambrose
• Gas ovens liberated women from the drudgery and pollution of maintaining a hearth.
  来自WSJ