今日の単語 Menial
M 0件のコメントMenial
【音節】me・ni・al 【発音記号】míːniəl
１．では今日も例文から意味を想像することから始めてみましょう
Medical students in London have demanded an immediate end to their “compulsory” reassignment covering “menial” tasks that would usually be undertaken by nurses and healthcare assistants. (from nursing notes)
Fan is one of them. Married, father of an infant daughter, he left home figuring on working hard abroad for a few years to build up savings on which to found a solid livelihood. Menial work in Japan, he’d heard, pays some 150,000 yen a month, as against an average Vietnamese monthly wage of 30,000 yen. (from Japan Today)
2. 次に英英辞典の説明です
used to describe work that does not need any skills and is badly paid and often boring.
servile, submissive
pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble
a domestic servant
3. 次に英和辞典の説明です
単調な、熟練の要らない、人にへつらうだけの、つまらない、卑しい、召使の、使用人にふさわしい、召使、単純作業者
4．類義語を確認してみましょう
base, boring, common, humdrum, low, mean, routine, etc.
humdrum: 月並みな、平凡な
5．もう少し例文を見ておきましょう
Forum: Carry out independent survey on elderly folk doing menial work (from The Straits Times)
No job is menial: Calls for change in mindset to tackle unemployment (from the Morning Express)
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