chore

英 [tʃɔː(r)]

美 [tʃɔːr]

n.  日常事务; 例行工作; 令人厌烦的任务; 乏味无聊的工作

复数：chores　

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牛津词典

noun

• 日常事务；例行工作
  a task that you do regularly
  1. doing the household/domestic chores
     干家务杂活
• 令人厌烦的任务；乏味无聊的工作
  an unpleasant or boring task
  1. Shopping's a real chore for me.
     对我来说，购物真是件苦差事。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 杂务;琐事
  Achoreis a task that you must do but that you find unpleasant or boring.
  1. She sees exercise primarily as an unavoidable chore...
     她基本上把锻炼看做是不得不做的琐事。
  2. Making pasta by hand with a rolling pin can be a real chore.
     用擀面杖擀意大利面会是个非常枯燥乏味的活儿。
• N-COUNT 家务活;家庭琐事
  Choresare tasks such as cleaning, washing, and ironing that have to be done regularly at home.
  1. My husband and I both go out to work so we share the household chores.
     我和丈夫都出去工作，所以我们家务活分摊。

英英释义

noun

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
  1. estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
  2. the job of repairing the engine took several hours
  3. the endless task of classifying the samples
  4. the farmer's morning chores
  Synonym:jobtask

双语例句

• Are you passionate about your work or is it a chore?
  你对你的工作是否充满激情还是工作是你的负担？
• It was a methodical, unexciting chore.
  那是一份按部就班、枯燥乏味的无聊差事。
• For some it was fun; for me it was always going to be a chore.
  对有些人来说，这是乐趣，对我来说，这永远是一份苦差。
• It's just that people are finding it so much more of a chore these days.
  但我并不认为购物逛街就从此不再时兴了。只是人们在慢慢地发觉，购物在今天更像是一种家务活。
• Studying the seismic activity has become a daily chore and there is one thing that I do not understand.
  研究地震活动已成为日常琐事，有一件事情我不明白。
• My husband likes it done every day, so he gets stuck with that little chore.
  而我丈夫喜欢每天洗衣服，所以他就固定负责洗衣服这一家务。
• So how should we share the chore?
  那么我们应如何分担这份差事呢？
• I find writing reports a real chore.
  我发现写报告真的很讨厌。
• Thank him for taking out the garbage, even if it is his only chore.
  感谢他去倒垃圾，即使这是他做的唯一家务。
• Finish five work tasks before you do a household chore.
  整理家务之前完成五个工作任务。