He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.

他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。

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Don't you like the work?

你不喜欢那份工作吗？

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And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

他用巧匠的手工作胸牌，和以弗得一样的作法，用金线与蓝色，紫色，朱红色线，并捻的细麻作的。

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Like his father, Alan Lomax went to work for the Library of Congress, where he directed the Folk Archive.

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get back to the initial point is going to require some input from outside, like heat or extra work or extra heat or something because you've done an irreversible process.

如果要逆转它,回到初始点，就需要外界的投入，比如额外的功，额外的热量等等,因为你进行了一个不可逆过程。

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And where they feed them, you know and like sometimes the parent might get home late from work.

在那儿，他们会给孩子食物。有时孩子的父母会很晚才下班回家。

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