thankless

英 [ˈθæŋkləs]

美 [ˈθæŋkləs]

adj.  让人不领情的; 徒劳无益的; 吃力不讨好的

BNC.33006 / COCA.24187

牛津词典

adj.

• 让人不领情的；徒劳无益的；吃力不讨好的
  unpleasant or difficult to do and unlikely to bring you any rewards or thanks from anyone
  1. Sometimes being a mother and a housewife felt like a thankless task .
     做母亲和家庭主妇有时使人觉得好像是个受累不讨好的差使。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (工作、任务)吃力不讨好的，劳而无功的
  If you describe a job or task asthankless, you mean that it is hard work and brings very few rewards.
  1. Soccer referees have a thankless task.
     足球裁判的工作吃力不讨好。

双语例句

• A new study says that having a demanding, unstable and thankless job may make you even unhappier than not having a job at all.
  一项新研究称，拥有一份琐碎麻烦、不稳定且不被认同的差劲工作，甚至比没有工作更让人窝心。
• 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。
• There are excellent reasons for not giving Athens any immediate relief from its thankless task, however.
  不过，有充足的理由不把希腊从徒劳无功的改革努力中立即解救出来。
• Roosevelt was reluctant to undertake the thankless task.
  罗斯福不大愿意承担这种徒劳无益的任务。
• I am not thankless, I hope, but that dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow on me and on all my hopes.
  我希望，我并非不感谢上帝！但那可怕的女人似乎给我和我所有的希望笼上了阴影。
• According to a recent study published in Psychological Science, the original gift giver is less likely to be offended by your thankless re-gifting than you might think.
  《心理科学》最新刊登的一项研究显示，最初的送礼人并不会像你想的那样，因为你这种看似辜负他人心意的转送行为而生气。
• Effort to curry favor with the matter, why become a thankless thing?
  能省力讨好的事，为什么非要变成费力不讨好的事呢？
• The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, other private facilities, and state and federal wildlife agencies have efforts under way as well. It's mostly thankless work.
  查塔努加市的田纳西州水族馆、一些私人机构以及州级和国家级的野生动物机构也在尽力，大家做这些工作大都不求回报。
• It was a thankless job, so we choked him off before long.
  那是一件吃力不讨好的事情，所以我们很快就不让他做了。
• Say thanks to those who do thankless tasks.
  对那些做不值得称道的事的人说谢谢。