grunt work

grunt work

美 　英

• n.乏味的重活
• 网络老土的；单调乏味的苦差使；体力劳动

英汉解释

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.

这个雇员非常生气，他说：我老是被指派去做那些繁重的工作，没有机会像我小组里那些人那样得到一些美差。

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

这种eBay模式的核心点在于使用Eclipse代码生成器以进行这些繁琐的转换。

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

大多数时间我都在挖沟，除了繁重的体力劳动以外别的什麽也没有。

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

美国的律师事务所通常会让刚毕业的法学研究生去做这种乏味而又繁重的工作，然后还对客户收取高昂的费用。

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

是为你开的庆生会，你可不期望去做费力不讨好的活儿吧。

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

事实上，你往往需要把你认为最感兴趣的工作委派出去，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.

我做了那个项目所有吃力的工作，我的老板却把成果划到了他的名下。

So consider keeping the grunt work for yourself sometimes.

所以有时，你可以考虑把让人发牢骚的事留给自己做。

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

有这一切不可避免要做的事情、账单和让人埋怨的工作时，我们怎样才能知道自己快不快乐呢？

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

加略特也会有这样的工作，例如泵出凝结物。

Few people enjoy doing the grunt work.

喜欢做繁重工作的人寥寥无几。

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

做简单的工作当然不需要丰富的知识，也不需要很多经验。

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

刚开始，我在《国家地理杂志》的读者服务部做普通的工作。

The grunt work is handled by dom4j.

这些工作都是由dom4j处理的。

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

在这个阶段不要乱画，只是大胆和完成这繁重的工作。