menial

美 [?mini?l] 　英 [?mi?ni?l]

• adj.不需技巧的；枯燥的；報酬低的
• n.仆人；傭人
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)仆人的；卑賤的；卑微的

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例句

After three years of menial jobs in the women's weightlifting team's kitchen, she was asked to leave.

在舉重隊廚房干了三年多的粗活后，她被要求離開。

Kurt: Oh, that was a mind-numbing position. I did menial work all day and I burned out in six months.

哎，那是個很無趣的工作。一天到晚都在做體力活，做了六個月就不干了。

Denisov took Tihon from his menial work, and began to employ him on expeditions, and to reckon him among the Cossacks .

杰尼索夫免去了他干雜活，外出偵察敵情時就把他帶在身邊，并把他編入哥薩克隊伍。

He draws from a past of menial jobs and financial hardships that shaped much of his early work, as well as a mistrust in authority.

他從過去的粗活和經(jīng)濟困難，形許多他早期的工作，以及作為一個權(quán)威的不信任。

The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.

而對于那些連最低工資都拿不到的窮人來講，他們只能為別人做傭人或作一些雜活而一年掙得200美元。

Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs.

就在上一代人，女性被限制于主要從事重復(fù)生產(chǎn)、仆人工作。

Like a monk who found God by doing his menial chores with painstaking care, Allen has found meaning in the dullest tasks of our busy lives.

正如僧侶在辛勤地處理日常瑣事的過程中發(fā)現(xiàn)了神的旨意，艾倫正是從我們日常最單調(diào)乏味的生活、工作中發(fā)現(xiàn)了人生的真意。

In the star- studded team, he would like a blue-collar effort, unknown to doing some stupid and menial living.

在大腕云集的球隊中，他像一個只會出力的藍領(lǐng)，默默無聞地做著一些粗活和笨活。

Many educated people they are nothing but unwilling to do "menial" work.

而許多學(xué)歷高的人卻都不愿意做“低賤”的工作。

In lucky Luxembourg hardly any graduates end up in menial jobs.

在幸運的盧森堡，幾乎沒有大學(xué)畢業(yè)生從事體力勞動。

Initially a service droid designed to carry out menial household tasks, Andrew is purchased by a wealthy family man played by Sam Neil.

最初，安德魯只是一部家用服務(wù)型機器人，一個富裕的家庭將其買來從事瑣碎的家務(wù)。

Better to be head of a small firm than menial in a larger firm.

在小公司里當頭要比在大公司里跑腿好。

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers.

耶穌專做一些每個人都想避免的卑微工作：洗腳、幫助小孩、預(yù)備早餐及服事麻瘋病人。

But all this time, he has been busy at the office, doing paper-work and other menial tasks.

但大多數(shù)時間，他都是被安排在辦公室忙來忙去，做點文書工作，或打點下手。

He has had exactly 4 interviews in this time by employers and no temp agencies have been able to find him even a menial job.

這次他獲得了雇主的4次面試，但臨時機構(gòu)甚至連一份卑微的工作都沒辦法找給他。

They believed that these life of menial work for granted, will not undermine the dignity.

他們認為，做這些生活中的粗活理所當然，絕對無損體面。

In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs.

1928年，他前往巴黎，在那里，奧威爾是一名不得志的作家，這逼迫他從事一系列卑賤的工作。

The underclass comprised very poor individuals who worked inconsistently, if at all, in the most menial jobs.

下層階級包括非常窮困的人，他們偶爾才有工作，而且即使有，也是最卑賤的工作。

From Howard Stern to Brad Pitt, most celebrities began their careers making a modest earning and doing menial tasks.

從霍華德·斯蒂文到布拉德·皮特，大多數(shù)名人開始他們的事業(yè)之前都做過收入低且不太體面的工作。

Robots have been doing menial jobs on production lines since the 1960s.

自20世紀60年代起機器人已經(jīng)在生產(chǎn)線上做雜活了。

Menial tasks and officer blows led him to seek a method of escaping the army.

他不堪軍官們的奴役和打罵，想法逃出這支軍隊。

Others were reluctant to give up the security of even menial jobs.

其他人則不愿放棄即使是能得到瑣碎工作的安全感。

Well, thank you for noticing. I'm "Menial Employee of the Month. "

多謝你留意到了，我可是“本月最佳低賤員工”。

There came a light tap at the library door - and, pale as the tenant of a tomb, a menial entered upon tiptoe.

隨著一聲輕輕的敲門聲，一個臉色煞白的仆人踮著腳尖進了我的書房。

The young have all moved out. Many live two hours away in the coastal city of Xiamen, where they largely do menial work.

年輕人都搬出去了，很多住在兩個小時車程外的沿海城市廈門，大部分在那里從事著卑微的體力勞動。

The superior and subordinate Agents adopted the master-menial cooperation.

上下級的CA間采用主從協(xié)作。

a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing).

一個被雇用來做仆人事務(wù)（尤其指洗刷）的廚房幫手。

Others find work as cleaners. Menial jobs are always available.

另外一些人則是清潔工，這些卑微的工作總是能找到的。

But the menial office job she landed was soon abandoned, because her father Jack, a bank officer, felt it was beneath the family.

但是在做了辦公室粗活工作之后沒多久，她就變得自甘墮落了，因為她父親杰克，這個銀行官員，認為這工作是丟了家族的臉。

However menial and trivial your early assignments may appear, give them your best effort.

不論你最初被安排的任務(wù)是多么卑微和瑣碎，都要盡你最大的努力去完成它。

And that's really the biggest problem with seeing work as menial labor.

把工作視為一種下等勞動是一個很嚴重的問題。

Many students said they had held internships that involved non educational menial work .

很多實習(xí)學(xué)生承認他們在實習(xí)期間從事了和教育培訓(xùn)無關(guān)的卑賤工作。

As Kong Qiu grew older, their financial situation required him to take on menial jobs such as caring for livestock.

孔丘漸長，監(jiān)於家中經(jīng)濟困頓，而從事卑微的工作，如看顧牲畜。

Menial labor is not an infinite resource. The supply is shrinking.

廉價勞動力不是無限資源，供應(yīng)量在減少

While I had a few menial jobs in my teens, my first-hand knowledge of the world of work beyond the ivory tower is roughly zero.

我年輕時打過一點小零工，但是除此以外，我對象牙塔外的世界所知近乎為零。

But even menial temp jobs-such as working in the basement of Sports Illustrated, bar-coding old photo negatives-have been hard to come by.

但是，即便是體力零活，例如在《體育畫冊》雜志社地下室給老照片的底片加條形碼，也很難找到，更甭想在Dworken喜歡的行業(yè)找到工作。

Put down the classifieds and say no to thankless, menial tasks.

放下來分類，并說不吃力，粗重的工作。

It is the worker caste who performs the menial yet essential tasks of Yuuzhan Vong society, from garbage collectors to personal attendants.

從拾荒者一直到個人侍從，勞動者種姓從事著遇戰(zhàn)瘋社會中地位卑下卻至關(guān)重要的工作。

But instead of treatment they are put in overcrowded cells, denied medical care, beaten, and forced to do menial work.

但他們沒得到治療而是被關(guān)在擁擠的牢房，得不到醫(yī)療護理，遭到毆打，并被迫做不體面的工作。

However menial your life is, meet it and live it ; do not shun it and call it hard names.

不論你的生活如何卑微，你要面對它，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。