He built a hugely successful career with little more than plain old hard work and determination.

他凭借一贯的努力和决心，成就了事业上的巨大成功。

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This veteran cadre still remains his philosophy of hard work and plain-living.

这位老干部仍然保持着艰苦朴素的作风。

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Good startup marketing folks can lay stuff out themselves, know what legal stuff they really need to worry about and can just plain work their way through getting it done.

而一个优秀的新办企业市场营销人员能独自一个人安排好所有这些事情，他们知道有哪些法律问题需要真正担心，能以自己的方式把工作完成。

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At Whole Foods a noodle isn't just wheat and water in a plain package--it is the life's work of an Italian "authentic food artisan" named Gino Girolomoni.

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For a plain-English explanation of how GRATs and other estate planning opportunities work, see Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly Action-Oriented Guide, the bestselling book by Deborah L. Jacobs .

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The work's plain and often silken take on Baroque-era dance aesthetics came with an apt scrawl in the background, an enlargement of one of Ms. Brown's own drawings.

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