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To schlep something is to carry it or pull it when it is heavy, awkward, or there is too much of it — and you are a bit tired of the job. Informal American English; you hear it a lot in New York and from people who grew up around , though plenty of other Americans use it too. It is not a dirty word, but it is not for a formal letter. The feeling is “this is a pain.” You can schlep a suitcase up the , schlep bags home from the market, or schlep a child who will not walk. People stretch it: if you schlep across town, you make a long, trip, even with empty hands. As a noun, a schlep is that trip or boring job: “What a schlep!”
費力地搬、拖著走
組成Does not split in English. From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. German schleppen (“to haul”) is a close cousin, as are Dutch slepen and Danish slæbe.
原始詞典資料7 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。
schlepverb/ʃlɛp/
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slanginformalTo carry, drag, or lug.
- I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day.
- Queen Elizabeth will schlep along 95 pieces of baggage on her trip here.
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slanginformalTo go, as on an errand; to carry out a task.
- I schlepped down to the store for some milk.
- You are not doing a lot of heavy thinking when you are schlepping; you are performing useful but perhaps menial labor, usually in the service of someone else. Schlepping is not very glorious, but nonetheless one should not underestimate its importance. First of all, just because you are schlepping does not mean you are forbidden to think. In fact, just the opposite is true: Because the work content of schlepping includes little thinking, you can use this time to think and learn while you schlep. Many creative ideas occur during schlepping. For instance, how can I schlep this stuff with less effort?
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slanginformalTo act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner.
- I just schlepped around the house on Sunday.
schlepnoun/ʃlɛp/
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slanginformalA long or burdensome journey.
- Sure you can go across town to get that, but it'd be a schlep.
- The walk was a schlep, but it was a schlep Wallace and I did together. I was singing the song about the letters of the alphabet and about alligators and balloons from the Maurice Sendak book that Carole King put to music.
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slanginformalA boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person.
- For every genuine, sincere, perceptive resident who is capable and willing to work and sacrifice, you've got 200-plus who are permanently classifiable as either hustlers, rip-off artists, freeloaders, ganefs, shleps, or out-and-out shmucks!
- You dug Albert King. You notice his band is absolutely nothing. They were dead schleps, dead schleps playing behind him and Albert was the only one who really measured up to Albert's own sound. It was like they were old tired blues players and it was a drag. But Albert was exquisite.
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slanginformalA sloppy or slovenly person.
- My father had class? I was completely taken aback. I had never heard my father described that way. To me, he was not a European gentleman but a schlep, someone who preferred chinos to gabardine, comfort to style. My mother used to say that if she hadn't made him go shopping, he would still be wearing the same ugly suits he wore in the fifties.
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slanginformalA “pull” or influence.
- He must have had a lot of schlep to get such good seats.
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。