That way I can see my family while on assignment, and no one has to worry about working around holiday time.

这样的话我就可以在工作之余去看看我的家人，大家也不用担心在假期工作的问题了。

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Worse was to follow. In March 1945, while on assignment for the Observer in Europe, Orwell received the news that his wife, Eileen, had died under anaesthesia during a routine operation.

更糟糕的是，1945年的三月，奥威尔受“观察者”委派到欧洲，噩耗传来，妻子艾琳在一次常规手术中麻醉出错，不幸逝世。

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He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.

他第一次作为电视记者出国采访时就被扣作人质。

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Farrell,who has dual British-Irish citizenship, had been kidnapped once previously while on assignment in Iraq.

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Part of what happens in this particular piece is drawn, albeit very loosely, from a trip I made to the Chad-Sudan border in 2006, while on assignment for a magazine.

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My global education began in 2000, while travelling in Asia on assignment for an investment bank.

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