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chore

noun
🔊/tʃɔː(r)/
🔊/tʃɔːr/
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  1. a task that you do regularly日常事务；例行工作
    • doing the household/domestic chores干家务杂活
    Extra Examples
    • She let her husband manage the money while she handled other household chores.她让丈夫管钱，自己负责其他家务事儿。
    • Of all the household chores, I hate ironing most.所有的家务事中，我最不喜欢熨衣服。
    • She says she'll be around once she's finished her chores.她说，一旦她完成家务活，她就会在附近。
    • Working women still do about 70% of domestic chores.职业妇女仍然占家务的约70％。
    Topics Houses and homesb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • little
    • small
    • daily
    • …
    verb + chore
    • carry out
    • do
    • handle
    • …
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  2. [usually singular] an unpleasant or boring task令人厌烦的任务；乏味无聊的工作
    • Shopping's a real chore for me.对我来说，购物真是件苦差事。🔊🔊
    • I find shopping a real chore.对我来说，购物真是件苦差事。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • little
    • small
    • daily
    • …
    verb + chore
    • carry out
    • do
    • handle
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originmid 18th cent. (originally dialect and US): variant of obsolete char or chare ‘a turn of work, an odd job, chore’.