chore

英 [tʃɔː(r)] 美 [tʃɔːr]

• n. 讨厌的工作；琐事；家务

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]零星工作(尤指家常杂务)

   small duty or job (especially in a house)

英英释义

Noun:

1. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

   "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"
   "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"
   "the endless task of classifying the samples"
   "the farmer's morning chores"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. She finds shopping a chore.
   她认为买东西是烦人的事。
2. It's such a chore to change diapers.
   换尿布真是一件讨厌的事。
3. Shopping isn't a chore, it's recreation.
   购物不是一件琐事，而是休闲。
4. All this was done to relieve women of household chores.
   这一切都是为了把妇女从家务劳动中解放出来。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He is doing household chores.
   他正在做家务。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

chore, job, task, work

• 这四个词都有“工作”的意思。其区别是：
• task是可数名词,一般指分配的工作,也可指自愿承担的工作,尤指较困难、紧张的工作; work是不可数名词,指工作、劳动、职业、操作、运转等,这个词是一般用语,可用于各种场合; job是可数名词,指一件必须做的工作,或有报酬的工作,也可指职业,多用于口语中; chore指日常琐事,尤指家庭或农场干的杂务,家务事常用复数形式。例如:
• He goes to work at eight.他八点钟去上班。
• It takes a lot of work to build a house.盖一幢房子要费很大的工夫。
• They are paid by job.他们是按件计酬。
• I got a job with a firm.我在一家公司找到了工作。
• Each morning she would get up, do the chores, then go next door for a talk with her neighbour.每天早晨她都起来做些家务事,然后去隔壁和邻居聊天。

近反义词

【近义词】

• task 任务
• assignment 分配
• duty 义务
• job 工作
• errand 差使
• function 职务
• work 工作
• bore 使厌烦
• hard work 繁重的工作
• imposition 强迫接受
• inconvenience 不便
• odd job 零工
• responsibility 责任
• routine 例行公事
• employment 职业
• mission 使命
• thing 东西
• labor 工人
• stint 节省