"As I've said from the day I took office, it's going to take months, even years, to dig our way out - and it's going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort."

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I don't mean they dig in the ground, but they supervise it; they think about it. They are like people who are in charge of a plantation, their own plantation,I mean.

他们亲自开垦土地,但是他们亲自监督,他们出谋划策,他们就像是,自己种植园的负责人

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