menial是什麼意思_音標_用法_例句

簡單釋義：

adj. 不需技巧的；枯燥的；報酬低的

n. 僕人；傭人

網路 僕人的；卑賤的；卑微的

變形：

複數：menials  

完整釋義：

adj.

1.奴性的,卑下的;奴僕的,僕人的
2.低賤的

n.

1.奴僕;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.
   在舉重隊廚房幹了三年多的粗活後，她被要求離開。

2. There came a light tap at the library door – and, pale as the tenant of a tomb, a menial entered upon tiptoe.
   隨著一聲輕輕的敲門聲，一個臉色煞白的僕人踮著腳尖進了我的書房。

3. And that's really the biggest problem with seeing work as menial labor.
   把工作視為一種下等勞動是一個很嚴重的問題。

4. In lucky Luxembourg hardly any graduates end up in menial jobs.
   在幸運的盧森堡，幾乎沒有大學畢業生從事體力勞動。

5. The underclass comprised very poor individuals who worked inconsistently, if at all, in the most menial jobs.
   下層階級包括非常窮困的人，他們偶爾才有工作，而且即使有，也是最卑賤的工作。

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.
   而對於那些連最低工資都拿不到的窮人來講，他們只能為別人做傭人或作一些雜活而一年掙得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.
   他從過去的粗活和經濟困難，形許多他早期的工作，以及作為一個權威的不信任。

8. But the menial office job she landed was soon abandoned, because her father Jack, a bank officer, felt it was beneath the family.
   但是在做了辦公室粗活工作之後沒多久，她就變得自甘墮落了，因為她父親傑克，這個銀行官員，認為這工作是丟了家族的臉。