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A drudge is a person who does hard, boring work, day after day, with little thanks or interest — the jobs nobody else wants. Old stories put drudges in kitchens and big houses; modern speakers use it for dull office or house work too. The word is a little old-fashioned, and it can sound if you pin it on a real person, so people often use it about a feeling (“I felt like a drudge”) rather than as a job title. There is also a verb: to drudge is to do that kind of work. The work itself is — dull and heavy.
做苦工的人（當動詞：做苦工）
組成From Middle English druggen, perhaps from an old English verb for doing or suffering work; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”). Some of the older steps are reconstructed, so that “perhaps” belongs in the story.
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- drudgerythe hard, boring work itself
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
drudgenoun/dɹʌd͡ʒ/
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A person who works in a low servile job.
- drudge work
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derogatorySomeone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
drudgeverb/dɹʌd͡ʒ/
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To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
- Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day.
- He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。