unpleasant duty

基本解释

It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty.
那不是一种苦恼，不是，而是一桩苦差事。
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.
毛瑞思审阅员有一个不是很令人愉快的工作，即评定出那些不适合被公众阅读的读物。
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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."
我们认为自己应尽的义务都是些令人讨厌的事情，这可一点都不像我们的主，祂说＂我的神啊，我乐意照你的旨意行。

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