dirty work

基本解释

The Pakistanis were obviously not intent on capturing him - they left us to do our own dirty work.
巴基斯坦人显然并不想抓住他——他们留下我们独自干着这项肮脏的工作。
Compared with raising taxes or cutting spending, just letting inflation do the dirty work sounds easy.
和增加税收、削减开销相比，通货膨胀稍微做一下脏功听起来很容易。
Humans have long dreamed of droids to do our dirty work, whether washing the dishes or fighting our wars.
长期以来，人类就梦想着由机器人来完成那些类似洗盘子或者打仗的苦活。

Several times at public executions in 1698 and 1699, he brushed the executioner away, grabbed the axe and did the dirty work himself, chopping off a head or two.
在1698年和1699年的数次公开行刑里,他轰走了刽子手,抄起斧子亲自动手,手刃了几个囚犯
耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选
It goes out to the outside world, interacts,gets its hand and mind dirty, does work outside and then applies its work and learns from "the dirty experiences" and brings it back to the lab and so on and so on in an upward spiral.
而是走到外面的世界，与外界互动，接触那些“肮脏“事物，在外面工作，并吸取经验,从“肮脏经验“中学习“,将得到的经验带回实验室,诸如此类，就像一个上升的螺旋。
哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

He told Nancy, the Preener and Riedy, the Weasel to do all the dirty work.
FORBES: Barry's Fairyland at Foggy Bottom
So, I suppose I will have to do the dirty work of Intellectual Imperialism.
FORBES: Kevin Drum on the Molecule