hackwork
/hak-wurk/US // ˈhækˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈhækˌwɜːk) //
黑工,黑客工作,黑客攻击,黑板上的工作
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
Examples
But much of his labour was heavy hackwork of a very uninteresting character.
Care would be necessary to prevent the assignment to them of mere routine hackwork without training value.
He had in effect emancipated himself from hackwork, and could turn his attention to more congenial and ambitious labour.
But much of the labor done was mere hackwork of a very uninteresting character.
For two years he did literary hackwork, when he could get it, and wrote pastorals, epics and all manner of ambitious failures.
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