Gamers could use IM to contact a friend directly and ask, but that required a lot of effort on the part of the user.

玩家可以用即时通讯软件直接联系一个朋友并询问他，但是这需要玩家付出大量努力。

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She spends too much effort on things that don't matter.

她在一些无关紧要的事情上花费精力太多。

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Milkman says that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.

米尔克曼说这些业余工作是工人们在工厂忍受重复的装配线工作所带来的屈辱之后，为恢复尊严所做的努力。

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Mitchell,a former Senate Majority Leader, led a successful U.S.mediation effort on Northern Ireland in the 1990s.

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Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

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Congratulations, a lot of people put in the effort and there is some learning going on.

恭喜你们，有许多人花了很多精力,一直坚持学习。

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"It is time for a huge effort on the Middle East peace process, " he said.

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Focus your effort on meeting people who can get you the job you want.

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As it winds down, some participating schools plan to continue the effort on their own.

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