By studying photographs, true artists, he claimed, would be relieved of menial tasks and become free to devote themselves to the more important spiritual aspects of their work.

他声称，通过研究照片，真正的艺术家能从技术含量较低的工作中解脱，自由地投身于他们工作中更重要的精神层面。

For instance, say you have a menial job.

比如，你的工作很卑微。

In lucky Luxembourg hardly any graduates end up in menial jobs.

在幸运的卢森堡，几乎没有大学毕业生从事体力劳动。

Others find work as cleaners. Menial jobs are always available.

另外一些人则是清洁工，这些卑微的工作总是能找到的。

Able to receive menial Labour instruction and to do menial jobs.

愿意接受服务指导和从事服务工作。

The systems I built during my career replaced numerous menial tasks.

我职业生涯中建设的系统替代了若干的无意义工作。

And that's really the biggest problem with seeing work as menial labor.

把工作视为一种下等劳动是一个很严重的问题。

Robots have been doing menial jobs on production lines since the 1960s.

从上世纪60年代起，机器人就开始在工厂的生产线上从事卑微的工作。

Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs.

就在上一代人，女性被限制于主要从事重复生产、仆人工作。

As soon as he could escape, he took to the road, doing various menial jobs.

他刚能逃脱便开始拦路行劫，干各种各样的卑下活计。

More recent arrivals moan that it is tough to find work, even the menial sort.

最近到来的人抱怨甚至是佣人的工作都难找。

Younger employees and those with more menial jobs were also more prone to boredom.

较年轻的职员和那些做辅助性工作的人更容易感到无聊。

After three years of menial jobs in the women's weightlifting team's kitchen, she was asked to leave.

在举重队厨房干了三年多的粗活后，她被要求离开。

Players and critics alike have noted the game's resemblance to a job, and a fairly menial job at that.

游戏玩家和评论者似乎都注意到游戏与现实工作间的相似之处，甚至是相当琐碎的工作也是一样。

We don't know who our mother would have been if she hadn't worked menial jobs and raised five children.

我们都不知道，如果母亲没做那些平凡的工作，没有抚养五个孩子长大，她会有怎样的人生。

In 1975, Obama Sr. secured his final job: a menial finance position usually reserved for recent college grads.

1975年老奥巴马获得了最后一份工作——寒碜的财务职位，通常这样的职位是留给大学毕业生的。

But pessimists reckon that having the best and brightest working abroad, often in menial jobs, is a dreadful loss.

但悲观者却认为最好、最有前途的人都在国外工作，多数人都从事着不体面的工作，这是可怕的浪费。

"Most of the time, the positions on offer are low paid, menial or trivial jobs, such as sales promotion, " said Jiang.

大多数时候，实习生的工资都很低，干一些乏味琐碎的低层次工作，如销售推广。

The young have all moved out. Many live two hours away in the coastal city of Xiamen, where they largely do menial work.

年轻人都搬出去了，很多住在两个小时车程外的沿海城市厦门，大部分在那里从事着卑微的体力劳动。

The very poorest, who slip under the minimum-wage threshold to take the most menial and casual jobs, earn less than $200 a year.

而对于那些连最低工资都拿不到的穷人来讲，他们只能为别人做佣人或作一些杂活而一年挣得200美元。

Among its supporters is Marta Kubisova, a much-loved singer who was forced into menial work after the Soviet-led invasion of 1968.

备受喜爱的歌手玛尔塔•库碧索娃（Marta Kubisova）便是众多支持者之一。1968年，以苏联为首的华约成员国入侵当时的捷克斯洛伐克后，她被迫去做粗活维持生计。

They're present for team practices and weightlifting sessions as well as participating in more menial activities such as laundry duty.

在球员们练习和在举重时都必须在场，他们还得干一些很卑微的杂事，例如给球员们洗衣服。

Like a monk who found God by doing his menial chores with painstaking care, Allen has found meaning in the dullest tasks of our busy lives.

正如僧侣在辛勤地处理日常琐事的过程中发现了神的旨意，艾伦正是从我们日常最单调乏味的生活、工作中发现了人生的真意。