thankless

adj.

1. 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。

1. ADJ-GRADED (工作、任务)吃力不讨好的，劳而无功的
   If you describe a job or task as thankless, 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。

1. Soccer referees have a thankless task.
   足球裁判的工作吃力不讨好。
2. No matter how hard you work, this job is always thankless.
   这个工作怎么干也讨不了好儿。
3. 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。
4. 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？
5. 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。
6. You have not been worn down yet by long hours of thankless work, by the slings and arrows of everyday life.
   你还没有被日复一日的无聊工作还有生活的局限以及每天不经意的刺激磨蚀残缺。
7. Solving this dilemma can be a tough and thankless job; but it's also one of the most important.
   解决这个矛盾是个费力不讨好的苦差事；但它非常重要。
8. 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。
9. I said it last year-and I'll say it again. There is only one activity more thankless than predicting the future-and that is publicly sharing your predictions.
   我去年就说过今年要再强调的一点是：唯一比预测未来更不招人待见的事情就是公开自己的预言。
10. Say thanks to those who do thankless tasks.
    对那些做不值得称道的事的人说谢谢。
11. Being a middle manager is the most thankless job ever invented.
    担任中层经理是人类有史以来发明的最吃力不讨好的工作。
12. This is often a very thankless job, Legge says.
    莱格博士说饭馆服务员是个费力不讨好的工作。
13. Skin has the thankless job of coating and protecting your whole body, making it your most easily damaged organ.
    皮肤辛苦的担任着包裹我们和保护我们整个身体的责任，因此它也成为了最容易被伤害的器官。
14. But as Christmas draws near he has confessed on a fans 'website that he is finding it all a pretty thankless task.
    但圣诞其间，他在一个球迷网站上公开承认，自己觉得这项工作完全是费力不讨好。
15. Giving advice is usually a thankless act.
    进忠告通常是一种不令人感激的行为。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. Suing the ultimate Chinese culprit is a thankless task.
    起诉最终的中国责任人是件费力不讨好的差事。
19. 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？
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless;
    乔，你千万不要告诉他说我是忘恩之辈；
23. She might feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth it was to have a thankless child.
    让她也知道知道有个负心的孩子要比挨毒蛇的牙齿咬还要痛苦。
24. Ungrateful heirs; how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!-shakespeare.
    不领情的继承人；比大毒蛇的牙齿更尖利多少呀生个忘恩负义的孩子！莎士比亚。
25. Does the president's speech presage a newly energetic sally by the administration into this thankless, daunting battlefield?
    奥巴马的讲话是否预示着美国政府将在这片冷酷、棘手的战场上重新发起冲锋？
26. Thankless job collecting garbage is a thankless job, but someone's got to do it.
    不被尊重的工作收垃圾是一件不受尊重的工作，却有人一直在做这事。
27. The role of the peacemaker is, by its very nature, a thankless one.
    饲停人的角色，就其根本的本质来说，是吃力不讨好的角色。
28. Deciphering the Chinese economy is a thankless job at the best of times.
    即使在最景气的时期，解读中国经济也是一件费力不讨好的事情。
29. 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。
30. What I believed would be a spectacular work experience swiftly revealed itself to be a series of thankless performances in such splashy venues as cafeterias and dormitory lobbies.
    我原来以为这是一次了不起的经历，可很快却发现在那些餐厅和寝室大厅这些场地进行表演后没有得到一点感激。