It describes a job that does not take much effort.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

What type of different foods were they eating, and how much effort went into getting them?

他们吃着什么样不同的食物呢,他们为此付出多大的努力

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Externality When I'm figuring out how much effort to contribute to this firm I don't take into account that other half of profits that goes to you.

外部性,当我计算要为公司付出多少时,我没考虑到利润的一半会归你所有

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I once landed on my face. I soon learned that it took much less effort for me to move on Mars than it did on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

And then there would be the butchering of the animal, there would be the securing the crops from the fields, and then bringing it to wherever you were going to eat it, which burns more calories and requires more physical effort, compared to the person on the right that really doesn't have to do much at all.

然后,他们要屠宰动物,要看护好地里的庄稼,还要把食物带到进食的地方,与右边的人相比,他们消耗更多卡路里,需要更强的体力,后者根本不必需付出那么多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

He said some opponents are trying to delay the process as much as they can, in hopes of killing the entire reform effort.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Republicans oppose the health care effort on principle, arguing that it represents too much government intervention in the health care system and will bankrupt the country with its high cost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

The comments from the State Department came after Iran failed to provide a final response Friday to a proposal brokered by the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency under which Tehran would ship abroad much of the low-enriched uranium it has produced in an enrichment effort that has drawn international concern.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02