名詞 drudge:

1. one who works hard at boring tasks
   同義詞：hack, hacker
2. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
   同義詞：peon, navvy, galley slave

動(dòng)詞 drudge:

1. work hard
   同義詞：labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, dig, moil

1. One who does menial work; a drudge.
   苦役干雜活的人; 苦役

drudge

n.（名詞）
A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.
做苦工的人：做單調(diào)、卑賤或不愉快工作的人
v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
drudged,drudg.ing,drudg.es
To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.
苦工：做單調(diào)無(wú)味或卑賤的工作

來(lái)源：
From Middle English druggen [to labor] ; akin to Old English drôogan [to work, suffer]
源自 中古英語(yǔ) druggen [勞動(dòng)] ；類(lèi)似于 古英語(yǔ) drôogan [工作，受苦]

【引伸】
drudg.er
n.（名詞）
drudg.ingly
adv.（副詞）

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drudge
drudge 2

n.（名詞）
v.Chesapeake Bay （動(dòng)詞）【切薩皮克灣】
Variant of dredge
dredge的變體

<注釋>.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.’.
在切薩皮克灣那邊，他們把它稱(chēng)之為.為捕蝦做苦工，.查爾斯·庫(kù)洛特在他的與查爾斯·庫(kù)洛特同游 一書(shū)中談及。 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞dredge ，在發(fā)音時(shí)其元音被切薩皮克灣捕蝦漁民發(fā)成中元音，隨后產(chǎn)生 drudge。 Drudge 又被德?tīng)栺R瓦半島一城市居民吸收；對(duì)來(lái)自巴爾的摩的一部分年輕人的調(diào)查表明，他們甚至不知道有一個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞dredge 。 對(duì)具有標(biāo)準(zhǔn)含義的drudge .做單調(diào)、卑賤或無(wú)趣工作.，庫(kù)洛特給出了一個(gè)稀奇古怪的民俗語(yǔ)源， 他說(shuō)道，.無(wú)論你以何謀生，再?zèng)]有比捕蝦做的工更苦的了.