There's digging, weeding and watering. Even picking things can be hard work.

挖土、除草、浇水、甚至摘东西都是很辛苦的工作。

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Digging a well is hard work.

挖井是一件苦差事。

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And people make grunting sounds, too, when they are working really hard at something like digging ditches.

人在做挖沟之类的工作时也会发出表示疲劳的声音。Larry，那grunt work是不是就是指繁重的体力劳动？

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On the other side of the river Clyde in the Gorbals, a group of men is hard at work digging out what will eventually be a garden.

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Both sides appeared to be holding hard lines and digging in following the landslide reelection of President Barack Obama, but during the first talks Friday each side showed more of a willingness to compromise.

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Those of us in the press followed, digging hard for stories about corporate malfeasance and regulators asleep at the switch. (There was plenty to find.) Suddenly, being an FDA reviewer who had been too easy on a new drug meant that you might have to defend yourself in front of Congress.

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