When it came in, I asked him, "OK, now how do I do the task?"

当它出现时，我问他，“好了，我现在如何做工作？”

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I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.

我不想使这项任务不必要地复杂化。

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What I heard most often there was questions like "Shall we do the task in pairs?" and "Four students each group."

在那里我最经常听到是诸如“我们将以小组形式做这个任务吗”此类的问题，和“每组四个学生”。

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You might have predicted it the other way around, the twenty dollars, "wow, well, twenty dollars, I must have enjoyed it because I got twenty dollars," but in fact, the logic here is the people with twenty dollars when asked, "What do you think of the task?" could say, "It was boring. I did it for twenty dollars."

你们猜想的结果可能跟这个相反，拿20美元的那组，”20美元，我当然很喜欢这个任务“,”因为我拿到20美元“,但事实是，当问及20美元那一组时，”你喜欢这个任务吗/“,”很无聊，我为了20美元才做的“

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Still, I had to do the task so I figured I might as well read up on what my boss was interested in.

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Shouldn't I learn to do some of these things, like cook, even if I find the task irritating?

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"I was crying, I told him, I can't do it, " Faneuil said, and he put off the task.

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