unpleasant duty

基本解释

It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty.
那不是一種苦惱，不是，而是一樁苦差事。
Maurice the Censor has been given the unpleasant duty of assessing just what can and cannot be allowed to be read by the general public.
毛瑞思讅閲員有一個不是很令人愉快的工作，即評定出那些不適郃被公衆閲讀的讀物。
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We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord - "I delight to do Thy will, O My God."
我們認爲自己應盡的義務都是些令人討厭的事情，這可一點都不像我們的主，祂說＂我的神啊，我樂意照你的旨意行。

Eventually, engineers will work entirely in the abstract world of forms— emerging only for the unpleasant, if necessary, duty of turning them into things tangible enough for people to buy.
ECONOMIST: Manufacturing technology