menial

menial

美 [ˈminiəl] 　英 [ˈmiːniəl]

• adj.不需技巧的；枯燥的；报酬低的
• n.仆人；佣人
• 网络仆人的；卑贱的；卑微的

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

在举重队厨房干了三年多的粗活后，她被要求离开。

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

哎，那是个很无趣的工作。一天到晚都在做体力活，做了六个月就不干了。

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杂活，外出侦察敌情时就把他带在身边，并把他编入哥萨克队伍。

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.

他从过去的粗活和经济困难，形许多他早期的工作，以及作为一个权威的不信任。

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

而对于那些连最低工资都拿不到的穷人来讲，他们只能为别人做佣人或作一些杂活而一年挣得200美元。

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

就在上一代人，女性被限制于主要从事重复生产、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.

正如僧侣在辛勤地处理日常琐事的过程中发现了神的旨意，艾伦正是从我们日常最单调乏味的生活、工作中发现了人生的真意。

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

在大腕云集的球队中，他像一个只会出力的蓝领，默默无闻地做着一些粗活和笨活。

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

而许多学历高的人却都不愿意做“低贱”的工作。

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

在幸运的卢森堡，几乎没有大学毕业生从事体力劳动。

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，安德鲁只是一部家用服务型机器人，一个富裕的家庭将其买来从事琐碎的家务。

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

在小公司里当头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.

耶稣专做一些每个人都想避免的卑微工作：洗脚、帮助小孩、预备早餐及服事麻疯病人。

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

但大多数时间，他都是被安排在办公室忙来忙去，做点文书工作，或打点下手。

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.

这次他获得了雇主的4次面试，但临时机构甚至连一份卑微的工作都没办法找给他。

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

他们认为，做这些生活中的粗活理所当然，绝对无损体面。

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，奥威尔是一名不得志的作家，这逼迫他从事一系列卑贱的工作。

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

下层阶级包括非常穷困的人，他们偶尔才有工作，而且即使有，也是最卑贱的工作。

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

从霍华德·斯蒂文到布拉德·皮特，大多数名人开始他们的事业之前都做过收入低且不太体面的工作。

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

自20世纪60年代起机器人已经在生产线上做杂活了。

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

他不堪军官们的奴役和打骂，想法逃出这支军队。

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

其他人则不愿放弃即使是能得到琐碎工作的安全感。

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

多谢你留意到了，我可是“本月最佳低贱员工”。

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

随着一声轻轻的敲门声，一个脸色煞白的仆人踮着脚尖进了我的书房。

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

年轻人都搬出去了，很多住在两个小时车程外的沿海城市厦门，大部分在那里从事着卑微的体力劳动。

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

上下级的CA间采用主从协作。

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

一个被雇用来做仆人事务（尤其指洗刷）的厨房帮手。

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

另外一些人则是清洁工，这些卑微的工作总是能找到的。

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

但是在做了办公室粗活工作之后没多久，她就变得自甘堕落了，因为她父亲杰克，这个银行官员，认为这工作是丢了家族的脸。

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

不论你最初被安排的任务是多么卑微和琐碎，都要尽你最大的努力去完成它。

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

把工作视为一种下等劳动是一个很严重的问题。

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

很多实习学生承认他们在实习期间从事了和教育培训无关的卑贱工作。

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

孔丘渐长，监於家中经济困顿，而从事卑微的工作，如看顾牲畜。

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

廉价劳动力不是无限资源，供应量在减少

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.

我年轻时打过一点小零工，但是除此以外，我对象牙塔外的世界所知近乎为零。

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，即便是体力零活，例如在《体育画册》杂志社地下室给老照片的底片加条形码，也很难找到，更甭想在Dworken喜欢的行业找到工作。

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

放下来分类，并说不吃力，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.

从拾荒者一直到个人侍从，劳动者种姓从事着遇战疯社会中地位卑下却至关重要的工作。

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

但他们没得到治疗而是被关在拥挤的牢房，得不到医疗护理，遭到殴打，并被迫做不体面的工作。

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

不论你的生活如何卑微，你要面对它，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。