例句與用法

1. he, too, had his hackwork .
   他也寫過純粹為了糊口的東西。
2. in a way, he was the "poor-devil author" of whom washington irving wrote a sympathetic sketch, the man who from vast dreams of literary fame descends to ignominious hackwork .
   他有幾分象歐文筆下令人惋惜的那個“可憐巴巴的作家，”從天才夢墮落為雇傭文人。