Keep in mind that the actual "horse work" is never exciting, but if you knew what project you were working on, you got more interested and involved.

记住，实际的繁重劳动总是不会使人振奋的。但当你了解了所研究的项目之后，兴趣就会越来越大，越来越专心致志地去做。

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But I will tell my officers to let all the men who claim to own a horse or mule take the animals home with them to work their little farms."

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Instead she is designed as an elegant work horse capable of both turning heads and carrying the toys of her wealthy owners.

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In many ways, the Cayenne feels like a work horse.

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It does join Queens with the Manhattan congressional district he once represented, and he has been quoted calling it a "work-horse bridge, " an image he identified with as a politician.

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