●chore 日常家務、厭煩工作
Being a career woman who always stays up late in the office, my mother has employed a housemaid to do all the daily chores.
我母親是位職業女性，經常在辦公室熬夜，故聘用一名女傭，幫忙家務。

●drag 無聊乏味的事或人
The lecture is a real drag, so I left earlier.
那場演講很乏味，因此我提早離開。

●drag one's feet 拖曳前進，緩慢而勉強地前進
He could scarcely drag himself along.幾乎走不動了, 拖曳而行

●drugery (n.) （又累又悶又不受重視的）賤役
He can't help but has to do the drudgery.
他雖不願意，但無奈也得去做這項苦差。

●elbow grease (infml) （尤指洗擦等之）費力氣的工作
Thanks to the invention of dishwasher, making washing-up no longer a nightmare for housewives.
多虧有洗碗機的發明，讓飯後洗碗工作不再是家庭主婦的夢魘。

●grind 枯燥無趣的工作
Writing academic paper is sometimes a real grind.
撰寫學術論文有時是件枯燥無趣的工作。

●toil (n.) （又累又苦悶的）苦工
Weeding this big garden is just a toil.
清除這個大花園的雜草，簡直是一件苦差。

●exacting 勞心勞力的
Accounting work is really exacting.
會計工作實在是勞心又勞力。

●irksome 令人厭倦
Compiling computer program is an irksome task to one who is not good in logical thinking.
對不擅長邏輯思考的人來說，編寫電腦程式是項令人厭倦的工作。

●monotonous (a.)單調、枯燥的
  The clerk is averse to doing the data input duty, which he thinks is too monotonous.
那文員厭惡幹資料輸入的工作，因為太平板單調了。

●strenuous (a.) 繁重、艱苦的
What a construction laborer has to do in a day may be too strenuous to an ordinary man.
建築工人一日所需要完成的工作，對普通人來說可能是艱苦不堪。

●tedious (a.) 冗長乏味的
Though many of my friends find this sci-fi interesting, I would say it is downright tedious.
雖然很多朋友都說此科幻小說很好看，我卻認為此書乏味透頂。