单词 | 做苦工 |
释义 | 〔fag〕To work to exhaustion; toil.做苦工:精疲力尽地工作;辛劳地工作〔condemn〕condemned the dissident to hard labor;惩罚持不同意见者做苦工;〔sweat〕To work long and hard.做苦工:长时间辛勤工作〔grub〕To toil arduously; drudge:辛劳:艰苦劳作;做苦工:〔moil〕To toil; slave.劳动:辛苦工作;做苦工〔drudge〕A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.做苦工的人:做单调、卑贱或不愉快工作的人〔drudge〕"Out here on the Chesapeake,they call it ‘drudging for arsters,’”says Charles Kuralt in his bookOn the Road with Charles Kuralt. The standard English verbdredge is pronounced with a centralized vowel by Chesapeake Bay oyster fishermen, yielding drudge. Drudge in turn has been picked up by city dwellers on the Delmarva Peninsula;a survey of some young people from Baltimore revealed thatthey did not even know that there was a standard English verbdredge. Kuralt gives the regional pronunciation a whimsical folk etymology with the standard meaning ofdrudge, "to do tedious, menial, or unpleasant work,” observing, "Whatever you do for a living, it's not as hard as ‘drudging for arsters.’”在切萨皮克湾那边,他们把它称之为“为捕虾做苦工,”查尔斯·库洛特在他的与查尔斯·库洛特同游 一书中谈及。 标准英语动词dredge ,在发音时其元音被切萨皮克湾捕虾渔民发成中元音,随后产生 drudge。 Drudge 又被德尔马瓦半岛一城市居民吸收;对来自巴尔的摩的一部分年轻人的调查表明,他们甚至不知道有一个标准英语动词dredge 。 对具有标准含义的drudge “做单调、卑贱或无趣工作”,库洛特给出了一个稀奇古怪的民俗语源, 他说道,“无论你以何谋生,再没有比捕虾做的工更苦的了” |
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