苦差事,苦工
Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\, n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. --Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. --Locke. Syn: See {Toll}.
drudgery n : hard monotonous routine work [syn: {plodding}, {grind}, {donkeywork}]