drudge

n.
1. one employed in mean tasks苦工。
△Rom.2.5.77(75):“I am the drudge,and toil in your delight:”i.e.work hard for your happiness. 我当苦工，为你的快乐而不辞辛苦。
2. hack,mean fellow干苦活的雇工，卑贱的人。
△2H.VI4.2.163(151):“And will you credit this base drudge’swords,/ That speaks he knows not what?”这个卑贱奴才自己都不知道自己说些什么，你们能相信他的话吗？
3. slave奴隶。
△2H.VI.4.1.104: “O that I were agod,to shoot forth thunder / Upon these paltry,serv-ile,abject drudges!”啊，但愿我是天神，放出雷电劈死这些卑鄙下贱的奴才！
△Mer.3.2.103: “Common drudge”，i.e.public slave. 公用的奴才。

drudge[drʌdӠ]

v.做苦工 n.做苦工者，苦差事
◇drudge away =drudge at辛苦工作
‖ drudgery n.辛苦劳作，苦工drudgingly adv.辛苦