chore
[tʃɔ:]
n.讨厌的工作, 琐事
例句与用法：
All this was done to relieve women of household chores.
这一切都是为了把妇女从家务劳动中解放出来。
She finds shopping a chore.
她认为买东西是烦人的事。
词形变化：
动词过去式: chorded | 动词过去分词: chorded | 动词现在分词: chording | 动词第三人称单数: chords |
n.[C]
1. 家庭杂务; 农庄杂务[P]
Does your husband do any chores after work?
你先生下班后做家务事吗?
2. 日常零星活儿, 例行工作
He freed his assistant from some of her chores.
他免去了助手某些日常事务。
3. 讨厌的工作; 困难的工作
Peeling bags of potatoes is really a chore.
削一袋又一袋洋芋皮真是苦差使。
chore
名词复数：chores
词形变化：
动词过去式: chorded | 动词过去分词: chorded | 动词现在分词: chording | 动词第三人称单数: chords |
词义辨析：
同义:
n.打杂; 讨厌的工作
task
job
work
duty
function
assignment
同义参见:
thing
stint1
errand
employment
mission
labor
chore[tʃɔ:]n.1.■(家庭或农庄的)杂务，杂活2.■日常零星工作[常用复数]3.■困难的工作；令人厌烦的工作近义词task
chorechore[tʃɔ:]n.[美](=chare)1.■[pl. ]家庭杂务2.■零星的事务3.■令人疲劳[不愉快]的工作
词性变化chore[tʃɔ:]vi.1.■作零星工作chore around[美]作短工
noun
- a routine task, especially a household one
日常零星工作（尤指家庭杂事）
■an unpleasant but necessary task
例行工作
he sees interviews as a chore.
他视采访为例行工作。
- mid 18th cent. (originally dialect and US): variant of obsolete char or chare (see charwoman)
chore
名词 chore:
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
chore
■house chore
n. 家务活, 家务劳动
■"Then it won't be such a chore, will it?"
“那么这事做起来不会是苦差事，对吗?”
■If you can give them a specific chore, it takes one thing off your hands and you've done them a favor as well.
一件零碎的琐事不仅减轻了你自己的负担，也成就了他们助人的心愿。
■Defining the concept of god is not an optional chore to be undertaken at the theist's convenience.It is a necessary prerequisite for intelligibility.
上帝的定义并不是为了方便有神论者的随意的小事，而是对我们要理解事物必需的先决条件。
■Unfortunately, for many, it is a chore(6), an obligation and, at some stores, a heart-pounding(7) experience of pushing, shoving and fist fights.
不幸的是，对很多人来说，这反而是一种累赘、种责任，在很多商店，它还是充满推搡、蹭、架的惊心体验。
■He is prepare to make a living by accepting any remunerative chore
为了生计,他准备接受任何有酬报的杂活
■He is prepared to make a living by accepting any remunerative chore.
为了生计,他准备接受任何有酬报的杂活。
■Why marriage can be a chore for women
为何婚姻把家务活只给主妇
■For a special someone is sometimes joyous, sometimes a chore.
为特别某人是有时欢悦的,有时差事。
■The summit and the speech to Congress were just part of the essential process of softening up the public for the long and contentious chore of fixing entitlements and the tax system.
之前的高级会晤以及对国会做出的演讲，只是为修复养老补贴以及税收体系的长期且争议颇多的繁杂琐事而缓和公众情绪这个重要过程的一个部分。
■This may be true only of me, but I could never wear a watch that valuable, and the chore of keeping it safe and in good working order would have been far too bothersome.
也许只对我来说是这种情况，但不管怎样，我实在不能在戴着一块那么昂贵的手表的同时, 却要忍受保管它所带来的得不偿失的那些烦脑。
■Today I have to do a chore.
今天我得做家务。
■Disliking this chore and relieved that it would end soon, he continued fielding questions.
他一边暗自庆幸这件讨厌的差事快完了，一边继续回答问题。
■They need not eat or sleep and do whatever chore they are set to until told otherwise, even if it requires them to tear their own bodies apart in the attempt.
他们不需要吃或者睡而且不论是什么他们都会认真的去干直到得到其他命令，即使命令他们去撕扯他们的肉体也回努力去做。
■he performed the menial chore of shining shoes.
他像仆人一样做些擦鞋的家务活。
■He finally caught on as a chore by with an outfit in New Mexico
他终于在新墨西哥州的一个牧场里找到打杂小工的职业。
■He left that chore to me, he said, because he didn't have the patience. Yet what he did or did not want to do often seemed to hinge on what I might learn from doing it myself.
他说之所以将这起琐事留给我去做，是因为他缺乏耐心。其实，他是否愿意做一件事往往决定于如果让我自己去做那件事，是否我会学到些东西。
■Rewriting it this way is not a chore, but an adventure in skill.
以这种方式重写不是乏味的苦工而是技艺上的探索。
■Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as I parade through each day convinced that every task no matter how menial or boring, bring me steps closer to fulfilling my dreams.
任何微小的工作，无论多么枯燥沉闷，都会使我更加接近最终的胜利，这样想着的时候，即使最单调的时常琐事，也变得可以忍受了！
■Anyway, nowadays, reading the newspapers have become a mentally draining chore.
但是，现在读报纸已经变成一种苦差事了。
■Scieszka himself says that young people have to be reminded that reading is fun and can be an interactive, enjoyable experience, not a chore.
作家他自己说我们需要提醒年轻人读书是一种快乐的，交互式的，令人愉快的经历，而不是讨厌的事情。
■chore around
作短工
■You may think that having a dishwasher is just a lazy way out of doing the dishes, but using your dishwasher not only saves you the time and chore of dishwashing, it also uses far less water than washing your dishes by hand.
你以为只是一个拥有洗碗机出路懒做的菜,但是你用你的洗碗机不仅节省时间和零工餐具、它也是以少用水冲洗比你菜的手.
■Remember when a trip to the supermarket was nothing more than a tedious chore requiring little or no specialized knowledge?
你是否还记得去超市不过是一件不需要什么专业知识的乏味的事情?
■You're never a chore, for it's you I adore.
你永远不是累赘，因为我衷情于你。
■Now you can make the boring chore of taking out the rubbish more artistic! Brighten your day and bring a little happiness to your streets on collection day!
倒垃圾也变得如此有艺术感！你还担心拎着不堪入目的废弃垃圾往外边跑而影响您的情绪？今天不必了，不妨拎着如此更具艺术气息的垃圾袋往街上一走，诶？什么感觉？
■Something as mundane as this may seem like a daily, necessary chore to one man, while offering a symbolic portrait of tranquil repose to another.
像这样平常的事对某个人来说可能是每天必需完成的杂务，却给另一个人提供了一幅象征着安静和平的画像。
■The ability of the CPC's leading ideology focuses on upholding and strengthening Marxism's leading position in ideological chore.
党领导意识形态工作的能力集中体现在坚持和巩固马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位。
■Of course, it also means I've got to re-i***ort all my macros and reprogram my key bindings, which -- since I'm a lazy bum -- can be a chore.
其次是美国政府近年来内陷金融危机，外陷伊拉克战争，这让共和党处于被动地位。而奥巴马阵营的策略就是将麦凯恩与布什绑在一起，让他为政府的政策失误负责。
■chore jacket
劳动茄克
■By nap time, his son lay helpless in bed, nap for him every day is a chore, as if I forced him.
午睡的时间到了，儿子无奈的躺到床上，每天午睡对于他来说是一件苦差事，好像我在逼迫他一样。
■Carol: Mum, who came up with the idea of Seaver chore day?
卡罗尔：妈妈，这个劳动日的主意是谁出的？
■I feel the practice of his profession has seldom if even been a chore to him.
即使对于他来说他的职业已成为家务杂事，我感觉他的专业实践很少。
■Additional, designedly has campaign, do some of chore for instance, take a walk etc, in order to prevent gestation fat.
另外，有计划地进行运动，比如做些家务、散步等，以防止妊娠期肥胖。
■Otherwise, people will accidentally check your chore list instead of their own and pretty soon you ll be filming a sitcom.
否则,人们可能碰巧会看到您的家务杂事列表,而不是他们自己的,这样就会出笑话了。
■For all we knew, not all the elderly residents even had family members who could perform the chore.
因为我们都知道，并非所有上了年纪的院内住户都有家人处理他们的日常事务。
■Because he had no pressing business at the moment, Professor Washington smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and proceeded to do the humble chore she had requested.
因布克·华盛顿那时正好没有紧急的事情，于是他微笑地卷起袖子，做了她要求的卑下的砍柴工作。
■In areas where winter camouflage was needed, the crews applied whitewash. When spring came, the crews had to scrub the whitewash off. This was a tedious, labor intensive chore.
在冬季伪装色需要的地方，就需要坦克成员自己涂装白色伪装，而在春天到来的时候，成员们又要把白色伪装涂料刮下，擦洗干净，这可是项枯燥而且劳动强度非常大的工作！
■And taking medicines for non-infectious conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure is also a chore.
在没有传染性的情况下，比如糖尿病和高血压病而服药也是琐屑的事情。
■It's such a chore filling in tax forms.
填写纳税申报表格真是件令人讨厌的事。
■She would ask him to do the dishes after dinner and feel a shudder when he put off the chore, as if it were a rejection.
她在晚餐后要求他洗碗，他没有立刻去做，她感觉震惊，彷佛这是他的拒绝。
■Exm: she finds shopping is a chore.
她认为买东西是件烦事。
■She finds shopping a chore.
她认为买东西是烦人的事。
■She thought it such a chore to do the shopping every day!
她认为每天上街买东西真烦人!
■She shuffles out of the chore by saying she feels ill
她说她有病,把杂事都推掉了
■She shuffle out of the chore by saying she feel ill.
她说她有病，把杂事都推掉了。
■She immediately began the next chore of cooking them a meal
她马上开始下一轮的工作，给他们做饭。。
■Learning something as potentially complicated as graphics programming will be a real chore if you're also unfamiliar with the language you're using.
如果你不熟悉你所使用的语言，那在学习实际上很复杂的东西比如说图形编程，这将会成为一个累赘。
■If you feel your life becoming stale, monotonous and everything seems like a chore, you probably need to shed all the unwanted musts clinging on to you.
如果你感觉你的生活单调乏味，每一件事似乎都很杂，那么你很可能需要摆脱身上所有多余的必不可少的东西。
■It is a tedious but necessary housekeeping chore if your goal is to write professional code.
如果您的目标是编写专业的代码,这就是一项乏味却又必要的苦差事。