She was a successful teacher, but the work,she decided, was too difficult for the amount she was paid.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Well, Willett and others were doing studies for a number of years finding that Trans fats were having a very negative impact on health, but nobody paid much attention and they couldn't get much attention out there in the world for this kind of work.

威莱特等人多年的研究发现,反式脂肪对健康有着非常负面的影响,但没有人对此多加注意,研究者们也无法让大众注意到他们的研究

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Mary Cassatt had found a way to return to her beloved Europe and be paid to work.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Hailey's hard work as a musician has paid off academically as well.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

His years of hard work paid off.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

Apolo Anton Ohno, who still sports his trademark "soul-patch" [of facial hair just above his chin, says his hard work has paid off.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23