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单词 chore
释义
chore
noun[C]
uk
/tʃɔːr/us
/tʃɔːr/
C1
ajoborpieceofworkthat is oftenboringorunpleasantbutneedsto be doneregularly:
日常琐事；杂务；乏味的例行工作
I'll goshoppingwhen I'vedone mychores(= done thejobsin or around thehouse).我把家务琐事干完后要去购物。
Ifindwritingreportsarealchore(= veryboring).我觉得写报告真是件烦人的事。
Synonyms
job
task(WORK)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Work, working and the workplace
  • act assomething
  • all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
  • assignment
  • bandh
  • be at workidiom
  • grind
  • hoop
  • hotelling
  • housekeeping
  • in the line of dutyidiom
  • induction
  • industry
  • job
  • moonlight
  • slave
  • slog
  • slouch
  • spadework
  • subtask
  • sweat
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(Definition ofchorefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

chore| American Dictionary

chore
noun[C]
us
/tʃɔr,tʃoʊr/
ajoborpieceofworkthatneedsto be doneregularly:
By thetimehe’dfinishedall thehouseholdchores it was mid-afternoon.
A chore is also something that isdifficultandunpleasant:
It was arealchoretryingto giveourdogabath.
(Definition ofchorefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchore

chore
His work is achoreto be suffered and is hard to come to terms with.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For giving help, few seniors assisted someone else during baby-sitting (12.4%), but the majority helped with household chores (74.5%).
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The extra help of ten simply meant that they were f reed up to tend to other chores and responsibilities.
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Alternatively, if the amount of work is thought excessive, the farmer will see it as achorethat he is obliged to suffer!
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Older men have been more likely than women to give money and housing, while older women are significantly more likely to help with household chores.
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Thus, men did not spend any more time on household chores when their wives were employed than they did when their wives were full-time homemakers.
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In addition, 746 hours were devoted to household and other chores, which made the total number of working hours 3,394 a year.
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It provides an outline of the daily round of chores and their timing.
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The percentage providing help with money, chores, and grandchild care are shown first.
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Older children can contribute to care provision or to domestic chores of the household to relieve the carer.
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She and her daughter got up at six every day and shared most of the domestic chores.
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To help out, the household pets each did onechoreinstead.
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As it is, the obscurity of the primary sources fosters a relentlesschoreof explication, undertaken for its own sake.
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Other household chores are handled by the butler, bearer or boy; the second-boy, house-boy, verandah-boy, room-boy, room-service-boy, and dressing-boy (where boy means 'male servant').
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Nevertheless, some users claimed that their befrienders undertook household chores for them.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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