We all have those days when getting out of bed seems like a real chore.

都有起床变成苦事的日子。

I got to run a...quick little errand.

… … 有个小事要办。

Even if you find a new hobby or job, it still feels like a fool's errand, and you wonder if all the time you're investing into such activities are worth it.

即使你找到了新爱或者新工作，你依然觉得仅仅是一事，你依然不知道把时间投入样的活动是否值得。

That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.

事真美妙，就是真正有用的了。

Perhaps you get frustrated because you feel like reading's a chore.

也许你会感到沮丧，因为你会觉得阅读是件苦事。

The grind was wearing on Hathaway.

抢银行件苦事折磨着海薇。

Yes, our vocabulary today included chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.

是的，今天的词汇中有个单词，苦事—你定期要做的既无聊又普通的任务。

Having to do something is a chore; getting to do something is a reward.

不得不做某事是一种苦事；有机会去做某事是一种奖励。

Now because I'd been a football star, a war hero and a national celebrity and a shrimping boat captain and a college graduate, these city folks of Greensboro Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job.

因为做过足球明星，战争英雄，国家名流，虾船船长和大学生，格林斯伯勒的父老乡亲聚在一起决定给一事。

The line at her regular bus stop was crazy, so she ran some errands.

她常去的公共汽车站排起了长队，所以她去跑了一些事。

You think it'd be a pretty sweet productivity hack to study your organic chemistry flash cards during a set of heavy deadlifts, but it's not going to work out so well.

你认为在一组繁重的苦事中学习有机化学的记忆卡是一个很的提高效率的方法，但它的效果不会很。

Do you know that is a hard job?

导游是一苦事，你知道吗？

It was hard work pulling the ship, and the men argued.

用小船拖大船是件苦事，大家都在抱怨。

Young Minty's life changed forever on an errand to a neighborhood store.

年轻Minty的生活在一个邻近商店的事上永远改变了。

Hmm. That's a lot of errands. But what you wanna do today?

事还真是多啊。但“你”今天想做什么呢？

In the next year, Frank lands a job teaching high school English.

第二年，弗兰克找到了一教高中英语的事。

It appeared to come from Mrs d'Urberville, and offered Tess work looking after chickens.

信像是德伯夫人写来的，她给苔丝提供了一养鸡的事。

For high-achievers, putting in the hours is not a chore but a way of life.

对于成功人士来说，加班不是一件苦事，而是一种生活方式。

This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the expression 'to get the short straw', which describes a person in a group who gets the most unpleasant or difficult outcome in a situation.

里是BBC地道英语，正在讨论短语" to get the short straw" 的用法。它是指在一组人当中，要干最苦、最困难的事的那个人。

He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria-sanitary officer or something like that.

他在亚历山大港卫生部门找了个小事——检疫员什么的。