I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends.

当我写自己的第一本书时，每天还在做一份全职的工作，我得在晚上和周末挤出一个小时来写作。

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After that, when the scavengers came to him with grievances one week, he decided to try their work, scraping out latrines for nine hours a day.

之后，有一天当清除污物者带着他们冤情来到他这里时，他决定去尝试一下他们的工作，每天清扫厕所九个小时。

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The rubber spatula, which can be bought almost anywhere, is indispensable for scraping sauces out of bowls and pans, for stirring, folding, creaming, and smearing.

但是橡皮铲哪都买得到，不管是要从锅碗里刮出酱汁，还是搅拌，卷东西，做奶油泡或是涂涂抹抹，都少不了这件法宝。

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During our poverty tour last year, we met countless people caught in vicious cycles of looking for nonexistent jobs because their unemployment benefits were expiring or had run out, scraping change together for gas to go on interviews that may or may not pan out, and having to swap food stamps for cash to keep the lights or gas on in the house.

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But the harm they do as a destroyer of habitat, by ripping up corals and sponges, and wrecking the nurseries of fish species that grow very slowly, seems out of proportion to any gain from scraping the ocean floor: one zoologist has compared it to cutting down virgin forests, full of rare species, to collect squirrels.

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By 1996 Kapac decided to get out of the business, and Wynne started scraping together a bid.

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