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drudgery



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苦工,賤役

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–noun
menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.  

—Synonyms 
See work.

Work, drudgery, labor, toil refer to exertion of body or mind in performing or accomplishing something. 

Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. 

Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, 
esp. 
of a menial or servile (奴顏卑膝) kind: the drudgery of [household] tasks. 

Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: labor on a farm, in a steel mill. 

Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's [health].


　
For all of Assayas' impressive facility, 

the movie never transcends its hackneyed [scenario]. 

Seeking to [unearth] the profundities 
immanent [in] the mundane, 

Assayas' movie ends up evaporating from memory days after the fact -- like much of the drudgery of [everyday] life.

Ultimately, the movie comes to seem irritatingly mannered.


stultify
Menial work can stultify the mind.  
stifle 
to stifle a [yawn]
muffle
to muffle [drums].
muffled [in] silk.  
stilted
Tony

pang
[a] pang of [remorse] 
hunger pang[s] cf. fang
travail 
the [pangs] of [childbirth]
respite
to [toil] without respite 
menstrual
menstrual [cramp][s]
Beleaguer

insipidness
bathetic 
commonplace (dull, ordinary, platitudinous)
banal (inane, pointless)
hackneyed (stale and worn out through overuse)
trite 
[true] but trite
Tenuous