人生下來就要工作，但有些工作可真累人呢！以下特別找出與「苦差」相關的名詞及形容詞，供各位讀者參考：
Noun名詞

●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，故聘用了一名女傭，幫忙日常家務。
Type─writing hundreds of pages of manuscripts is a chore！把數百頁的草稿用打字機打出來，真是令人煩厭的工作！

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

●drudgery（又累又悶又不受重視的）賤役
The four─day national holidays provide workers a much sought─after chance to escape temporarily from the dull occupational drudgery.
連續四天的國慶假期深受工人歡迎，因假期使他們暫時脫離刻板苦悶的工作生涯。

●elbow grease（infml）（尤指洗擦等）費力氣的工作Thanks to the invention of dishwasher, washing─up is no longer an elbow grease for housewives.
   多得洗碗機的發明，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
Marriage would become a real grind if it meant we had to cut off connections with our friends.
如果我們婚後與朋友斷絕來往的話，那婚姻將會變得完全枯燥乏味。

●toil（又累又苦悶）的苦工
It is a bit of a toil to weed this big garden.
 清除這個大花園的雜草，這差事有點兒費勁。
Adjective 形容詞

●exacting 勞心勞力的
It is exacting yet exciting to prepare for the two─day open house for my alma mater. Everyone here hope that it will be a success.
為母校籌備兩天的開放日，是件辛勞但讓人興奮的工作。這裡每人都盼望活動能成功舉行。

●irksome 令人厭倦
Compiling computer program is an irksome task to one who is not apt at 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 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，因為他覺得這太平板單調了。

●strenuous 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 冗長乏味的
Though many of my friends find this sci-fi interesting, I’d rather say it is downright tedious.
雖然很多朋友都說這本科幻小說很好看，我寧可認為此書悶蛋透頂。