The daily grind was too much for him; the novelty wore off; his only pleasures were found outside of working hours.

天天枯燥乏味的苦差事令他不堪忍受,新鲜感磨去了,惟一的乐趣只能在工作之外找到，他成了一个机械的。

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While the job is exhilarating — jetting you off to hundreds of places to try the local culture, food, and hotels — the reality of the work is a grind.

这份工作很振奋人心——让你去世界各地领略当地文化，品尝食物，住酒店——但事实上这是份苦差事。

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Their 38-year-old mother Rachel, a marketing consultant, explained why the family decided to take a year off from the daily grind.

他们38 岁的妈妈瑞秋，是市场行销顾问，她解释为什麽全家决定从每天例行苦差事中休假一年。

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Before you put the top cover on you will need to grind off the two plastic rivets securing the metal shield.

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The caesium finds its way into tiny pores on the surface, and the only way to remove it effectively is to grind off the surface, a difficult procedure which can create contaminated dust.

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As with the perennial struggle over the horrors of medical malpractice, the question of whether or not to screen for cancer is one of those health-care Holy Wars that will never be resolved merely shunted off into another who-pays economic grind-down because where data ought to rule, emotion will always overrule.

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