Nursing was ill-paid and grindingly hard work.

护理工作报酬低而且工作强度令人难以忍受。

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EU's role in awkward areas like crime and immigration has been grindingly slow work.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

But there is a mountain of worthless paper to clear up, and progress is still grindingly slow.

ECONOMIST: Japanese banks

Addressing both of these challenges is widely expected by economists to involve many more months or years of grindingly slow growth or even recession.

BBC: Spain's recession worsens in the fourth quarter