单词 | drudge |
释义 | drudge[drʌdʒ]n. 做苦工的人vi. 辛苦地从事vt. 强迫做苦工 drudge 1 drudge 1 AHD: [dr¾j] D.J. [drJd9]K.K. [drJd9]n.(名词)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v.intr.(不及物动词) drudged,drudg.ing,drudg.es To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.苦工:做单调无味或卑贱的工作语源:From Middle English druggen [to labor] ; akin to Old English dr¶ogan [to work, suffer] 源自 中古英语 druggen [劳动] ;类似于 古英语 dr¶ogan [工作,受苦] 继承用法:drudg“er n.(名词)drudg“ingly adv.(副词) drudge 2 drudge 2 AHD: [dr¾j] D.J. [drJd9]K.K. [drJd9]n.(名词)v.Chesapeake Bay (动词)【切萨皮克湾】 Variant of dredge 1dredge的变体1注释:“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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