drudge
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
来源：From Middle English druggen [to labor] ; akin to Old English drôogan [to work, suffer] 源自 中古英语 druggen [劳动] ；类似于 古英语 drôogan [工作，受苦]
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drudg.er
n.（名词）drudg.ingly
adv.（副词）
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n.（名词）v.Chesapeake Bay （动词）【切萨皮克湾】 Variant of dredge dredge的变体
<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.
