menial

menial什么意思,menial翻译

基本解释

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

权威解释

• 不需技巧的；枯燥的；报酬低的:

  not skilled or important, and often boring or badly paid

• 仆人；佣人:

  a person with a menial job

英汉解释

• 奴仆;卑下[奴性]的人

• 低贱的

• 奴性的,卑下的;奴仆的,仆人的

词性分析

• 复数：menials

单词搭配

• adj.+n.:

  menial work

同义词

adj.unskilledboringtediousbasiclowly

反义词

adj.skilled

例句

• 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。