Now it is used to mean making good progress in work or studies.

现在用来比喻在工作或学习上奋力向前赶。

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Many people have failed in their work or studies, precisely because they had no perseverance.

许多人在工作或学习中失败了，恰好是因为他们缺乏毅力。

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The report, however, suggested that fewer people were using the web for information for work or studies - a drop from 48% to 35%.

不过，据报告称使用网络工作或学习的人数较以前更少，比例从48%下降到35%。

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When Elaine Fuchs began her undergraduate studies, there were very few women in the sciences, and their work was rarely encouraged or recognized.

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But what I really have to teach is not going to be based on what you might read in textbook or a great work of technical film studies, you gonna write paper about that, but what to do to get most of the meanings you have to read these books.

但我真正想教授的,并不基于你们可能在教材读到的东西,也不基于很多技术性的电影研究,你们将对此写论文，但是你们必须读这些书,才能更好的理解书中的内容。

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Firms "strongly advised" graduates to take temporary jobs, training courses or even unpaid work if they could not find employment, rather than continue with their studies or taking a gap year.

BBC: Graduate salaries 'stay at ?25k'

Studies over the past decade show that people who work at home or outside the office tend to work longer hours, contrary to employers' initial fears.

CNN: Smartphones let work win out

Peter Hill, a consultant child psychiatrist, says that some patients wait 18 months for therapeutic help despite studies in America which show that behavioural therapy can work, on its own or combined with low doses of drugs.

ECONOMIST: Parents of hyperactive children face a dreadful dilemma