英语释义

• not likely to be rewarded;

  "grading papers is a thankless task"

• not feeling or showing gratitude;

  "ungrateful heirs"

  "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare

片语

thankless unthankful不感谢的

thankless job出力不讨好的工作

T Thankless摇滚

thankless a忘恩负义的

thankless children忘恩负义的孩子

do a thankless job吃力不讨好

ungrateful忘恩负义的；不领情的；讨厌的；徒劳的

thankless task费力不讨好的任务

And Thankless并吃力不讨好

ingrate thankless忘恩的

英汉例句

• teaching can be a tiring, thankless job that requires you to be 「on」 at all times.

  教学可能是一件累人却不讨好的工作，需要你总是绷在弦上。

• saving the world is a thankless task.

  拯救世界是一个费力不讨好的任务。

• many think mr gates took the thankless job at the pentagon, in the dying days of a discredited administration, out of an old-fashioned sense of public duty.

  许多人认为，盖茨在政府公信力面临崩溃的时期接手这样一个吃力不讨好的职位，完全是出于他那老派的公共责任感。

• few would doubt that the fund faces a thankless task in countries such as pakistan and greece.

  很少有人会怀疑，这个基金组织在诸如巴基斯坦和希腊这类国家将会是个费力不讨好的角色。

• a new study says that, income notwithstanding, having a demanding, unstable and thankless job may make you even unhappier than not having a job at all.

  一项新的研究称，尽管收入是一项必需的要求，但是不稳定的不能获得成就感的工作或许比没有工作使你更不快乐。

• the committee members were uniformly grateful that crocker had agreed to take on the thankless new role, and they were nearly as uniform in their doubts that it would go well.

  外交关系委员会成员一致感谢克罗克同意去担任这个吃力不讨好的新岗位，然而每个人几乎都在怀疑这项任务能否顺利完成。

• yes, it can be thankless to work for someone else, knowing your skillsand talents are ultimately making someone else a bundle.

  是的，为别人工作总是受累不讨好，你知道你的技能和智慧最终帮助别人赚了一大票。

• raise your hand for the thankless job nobody else wants to do.

  即使是那种没人愿意干的吃力不讨好的活儿也要主动担当。

• it is one of the most thankless jobs in the world.

  它是世界上最出力不讨好的工作。

• everyone worries about iraq, either because they think the war should never have been fought, or because of the long, costly and thankless slog it has turned into.

  每个人，无论是因为认为战争根本就不应该打，还是因为战争变成了持久、成本高昂并且吃力不讨好的泥淖，都在担心伊拉克。

• thus, the start-up phase isn’t merely contentious, it’s also thankless – there are few visible results for all of the hard work.

  因此，在这个开始的阶段里不仅仅容易引起争议，还会让贡献内容的人感到吃亏不讨好，因为所有这些艰苦的工作都几乎看不到什么结果。

• the waitress, landed with the thankless task of defending pea and ham soup to one of britain's most outspoken vegetarians, can only shrug and look mortified.

  而这名女侍应呢，她被安排完成这项吃力不讨好的任务要在全英国其中一个最直率的素食主义者面前为这碗豌豆火腿汤辩解，她只好羞愧地耸耸肩。

• it is a thankless task, inviting attack from both sides.

  这是一件吃力不讨好的工作，容易受到双方的攻击。

• you have not been worn down yet by long hours of thankless work, by the slings and arrows of everyday life.

  你还没有被漫长的乏味工作、被日常生活的打击搞得筋疲力尽。

• the job of secretary of state is more thankless than glamorous; in some ways, the department of state, a noble antique, is still trying to come to terms with the invention of the telephone.

  光鲜的国务卿所作的更多的是徒劳无功。某种程度上说，国务院这一历史悠久的重要部门现在仍试着与电话打交道。

• mr goolsbee’s tenure as chairman has been a thankless one.

  古斯比在担任主席以来一直做着吃力不讨好的工作。

• otherwise, the americans look reluctant to get more deeply entangled in the hitherto thankless task of making peace between arabs and jews.

  否则，面对目前撮合以阿和平这个费力不讨好的任务，美国人很不愿意深陷其中。

• being a middle east peace envoy is a thankless task.

  做一个中东和平使者是一项不讨好的任务。

• having a thankless job where you work lots of overtime without pay while your boss is on vacation.

  正干着费力不讨好的工作，还得在老板度假的时候天天加班拿不到加班费。

• is whitman setting herself up for failure simply because turning hp around may be a thankless task?

  惠特曼是不是注定会失败，因为扭转惠普的颓势不过是项费力不讨好的工作？

• at last, there is a reason to be always the bridesmaid, which is a rather thankless task that normally requires you to wear an unflattering dress.

  当伴娘从来都是个吃力不讨好的活儿，因为伴娘的礼服通常都很坑爹，但是现在形势不同了，女人们终于有了抢着去当伴娘的正当理由。

• raise your hand for the thankless job nobody else wants to do. your colleagues may think you are a toadie, but so what?

  做第一个到也是最后一个离开办公室的人，积极承担别人不愿做的工作，你的同事会以为你是一个二百五，那有怎样？

• collecting water for household use in drought-prone desert state of rajasthan southwest of new delhi can be an arduous, time-consuming, and sometimes thankless task.

  位于新德里西南的拉贾斯坦邦位旱灾频发，为该邦居民送水是一项费力、耗时而且有时是不讨好的工作。

相似词

unappreciative不赏识的

ungrateful忘恩负义的；不领情的；讨厌的；徒劳的

相反词

appreciative感激的；赏识的；有欣赏力的；承认有价值的

grateful感谢的；令人愉快的，宜人的

obliged要求；约束；施恩惠（oblige的过去分词）

thankful感谢的；欣慰的