grunt work

grunt work

美 　英

• n.乏味的重活
• 網絡老土的；單調乏味的苦差使；體力勞動

英漢解釋

n.	1. work that is boring and sometimes difficult, but not very important. The British word is donkeywork.

例句

It's not fair that I'm always assigned to do the grunt work with no chance of getting those juicy jobs like the others on my team.

這個雇員非常生氣，他說：我老是被指派去做那些繁重的工作，沒有機會像我小組里那些人那樣得到一些美差。

The central theme that runs through the eBay approach is using Eclipse code generators to take the grunt work out of doing this conversion.

這種eBay模式的核心點在于使用Eclipse代碼生成器以進行這些繁瑣的轉換。

I spent most of my time digging ditches - nothing but grunt work.

大多數時間我都在挖溝，除了繁重的體力勞動以外別的什麼也沒有。

American law firms typically get fresh law graduates to do such grunt work and then bill clients for it at steep rates.

美國的律師事務所通常會讓剛畢業的法學研究生去做這種乏味而又繁重的工作，然后還對客戶收取高昂的費用。

If it's your birthday celebration, you shouldn't be expected to do the grunt work.

是為你開的慶生會，你可不期望去做費力不討好的活兒吧。

In fact, you often need to delegate your most appealing work and do some of the grunt work yourself.

事實上，你往往需要把你認為最感興趣的工作委派出去，然后做一些“差活”。

I did all the grunt work on the project, but it was my boss who got all the credit.

我做了那個項目所有吃力的工作，我的老板卻把成果劃到了他的名下。

So consider keeping the grunt work for yourself sometimes.

所以有時，你可以考慮把讓人發牢騷的事留給自己做。

With all those unavoidable to-do lists, bills, and grunt work, how do we know if we are happy?

有這一切不可避免要做的事情、賬單和讓人埋怨的工作時，我們怎樣才能知道自己快不快樂呢？

Garriott will be tasked with similar grunt work, like pumping out condensation.

加略特也會有這樣的工作，例如泵出凝結物。

Few people enjoy doing the grunt work.

喜歡做繁重工作的人寥寥無幾。

LL: Yeah, and grunt work generally doesn't require a lot of knowledge or experience.

做簡單的工作當然不需要豐富的知識，也不需要很多經驗。

I began by doing grunt work in the custormer-service department at National Geographic magazine.

剛開始，我在《國家地理雜志》的讀者服務部做普通的工作。

The grunt work is handled by dom4j.

這些工作都是由dom4j處理的。

Don't fiddle at this stage, just be bold and do the grunt work.

在這個階段不要亂畫，只是大膽和完成這繁重的工作。