In short, a robot can do the dirty work—the dull, repetitious, dehumanizing and sometimes dangerous work that humans won't or shouldn, t do.

简而言之，一个机器人能做些-枯燥，重复，没尊严，有时危险的苦活，这是人类不能或不应该做的。

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Anthony, whose effort on the defensive end is often noticeably absent, suddenly can't stop talking about that dirty work.

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The idea is that the vaccines will train T cells to spot cancer, while the antibody will make sure the T cells remain activated long enough to do their dirty work.

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But change won't happen if we sit back and let other people do the dirty work.

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