It was a difficult task but we brought it off.

那是一项艰难的工作，但我们还是完成了。

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She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead.

她是一个勇敢的女人，但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。

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This mode is useful in situations where you know when a task starts and stops but have no way of knowing how far the task has progressed.

这种模式在这样几种情形下是有用的，您可以知道一项任务何时开始以及何时停止，但是您没法知道任务进展了多远。

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But the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors says there is no need to create a new agency to handle that task.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

Each group needed a justification for saying how interesting the task was, but they each had a justification.

每一组都需要一个理由来说明,这个任务有多有趣，但他们各自有自己的理由。

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It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time,through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.

VOA: special.2011.05.19

But a task sho master Aoyama San'u performed time and again in an artistic career (the word seems somehow trivial) that lasted the better part of the 20th century.

WSJ: The Vision and Calligraphy of Aoyama San'u | Tokyo National Museum | Transformational Characters | By Michael Judge

Cutting corners is not easy - but a necessary task when so many officers have left.

BBC: Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain

But a daunting task remained: to replace the declining fixed-line revenue with mobile and broadband services in one of Europe's most competitive markets.

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