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scut work
noun[ U ]
USinformal(alsoscutwork)uk /ˈskʌt ˌwɜːk/ us /ˈskʌt ˌwɜ˞ːk/
work that is boring, makes you feel tired, and that people do not have a high opinion of: 枯燥的粗活
I did all the scut work: paid the bills, ran the house, drove the children.所有枯燥无聊的工作都是我做的：支付账单、打理房子、接送孩子。
Scut work is hard and humbling, but it builds character.枯燥的粗活很辛苦，也很卑微，但却能培养人的性格。
Archaeology is largely scut work, involving painstaking grain-by-grain sifting of remote sites under awful conditions.
The workload is a mix of dreary, mind-numbing scut work and complicated stuff that I have to figure out.
She's not one to skip out on the scut work of politics: no town committee picnic goes unattended, no charity benefit is refused.
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