menial是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

adj. 不需技巧的；枯燥的；报酬低的

n. 仆人；佣人

网络 仆人的；卑贱的；卑微的

变形：

复数：menials  

完整释义：

adj.

1.奴性的,卑下的;奴仆的,仆人的
2.低贱的

n.

1.奴仆;卑下[奴性]的人

例句：

1. After three years of menial jobs in the women's weightlifting team's kitchen, she was asked to leave.
   在举重队厨房干了三年多的粗活后，她被要求离开。

2. There came a light tap at the library door – and, pale as the tenant of a tomb, a menial entered upon tiptoe.
   随着一声轻轻的敲门声，一个脸色煞白的仆人踮着脚尖进了我的书房。

3. And that's really the biggest problem with seeing work as menial labor.
   把工作视为一种下等劳动是一个很严重的问题。

4. In lucky Luxembourg hardly any graduates end up in menial jobs.
   在幸运的卢森堡，几乎没有大学毕业生从事体力劳动。

5. The underclass comprised very poor individuals who worked inconsistently, if at all, in the most menial jobs.
   下层阶级包括非常穷困的人，他们偶尔才有工作，而且即使有，也是最卑贱的工作。

6. The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.
   而对于那些连最低工资都拿不到的穷人来讲，他们只能为别人做佣人或作一些杂活而一年挣得200美元。

7. He draws from a past of menial jobs and financial hardships that shaped much of his early work, as well as a mistrust in authority.
   他从过去的粗活和经济困难，形许多他早期的工作，以及作为一个权威的不信任。

8. But the menial office job she landed was soon abandoned, because her father Jack, a bank officer, felt it was beneath the family.
   但是在做了办公室粗活工作之后没多久，她就变得自甘堕落了，因为她父亲杰克，这个银行官员，认为这工作是丢了家族的脸。