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drudge 1 AHD[drŭj] D.J.[drʌdʒ]K.K.[drʌdʒ]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
- From Middle English druggen [to labor] ; akin to Old English drēogan [to work, suffer] 源自 中古英语 druggen [劳动] ；类似于 古英语 drēogan [工作，受苦]
drudgʹer n.（名词）drudgʹingly adv.（副词）
drudge 2 AHD[drŭj] D.J.[drʌdʒ]K.K.[drʌdʒ]n.（名词）v.Chesapeake Bay（动词）【切萨皮克湾】- Variant of dredge 1 dredge的变体1
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”
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