An apron is a protection when doing dirty work.

围裙是做脏活时的保护物。

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Have you got around to doing the dirty work yet?

你已经在找时间做这个很无聊的工作了吗？

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After borrowing $120 from her dad to buy the Sittercity.com domain name, Thiers kept her overhead low by doing much of the dirty work herself.

蒂埃尔先从父亲那儿借来120美元买下了Sittercity.com这个域名，然后又通过自己多做脏活儿、累活儿来降低开销。

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So Merle takes matters into his own hands, in a crazy plan to have everything forgiven by saving the day, by doing the dirty work so he can stay close to his brother.

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The relentless end-to-end play looked reminiscent of Pittsburgh's ugly six-game loss to Philadelphia in the first round a year ago, when the Flyers scored whenever they wanted thanks to a Penguins defense that hardly seemed interested in doing the dirty work.

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It's no surprise that humans are doing less and less of the dirty work while they simply control robotic creatures that are actually doing the internal repairs, but a UCLA researcher has devised a ridiculously tiny "microhand" to handle even the smallest surgery-related tasks.

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