"There are so many people who work so hard everyday but they can't realize the benefits of that hard work to the extent that they should."

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

You don't have to work very hard to figure out what these different facial expressions mean.

你不必努力地去学习,去辨析不同面部表情的含义。

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Well... people at Harvard don't work as hard academically.

我想……哈佛的学生在学术方面没有那么刻苦。

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It wasn't hard work, but, you know, it was challenging.

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They don't feel as if hard work and responsibility pay off anymore, and they don't see that hard work and responsibility reflected either in Washington or, all too often, on Wall Street.

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"The backroom staff worked hard to get the snow of the pitch and the performance didn't merit the hard work we put in to get the game on, " said Butcher.

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