It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a personal essay.

这再简单不过了，除了要附加一篇个人论文，其余工作只需忙碌20分钟（就可以搞定）。

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More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application.

说得更确切些，他还没有决定好申请时所附的个人论文的主题。

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MacNeice drew many of the texts for Modern Poetry: 'a Personal Essay from the New Signature poets'.

麦克尼斯为《现代诗歌：新特征诗人的个人文集》写了很多的作品。

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The applicants must submit letters of recommendation and a personal essay and go through two rounds of interviews with the program's youth leaders.

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Informative articles in the latest issue include a list of 12 exercises that can do more harm than good and a personal essay from a woman training for the London Marathon.

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In the early 1980s I published an essay on personal robots when I was working at the Maynard Mill (Massachusetts) headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation.

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