In fact, drawing up the list becomes a way of avoiding the work itself.

事实上，列出清单成为了一种对工作逃避方式本身。

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It's half the work itself to make a good plan.

制定一个好的计划本身就是工作的一半。

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Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.

准备工作已经完成；现在是进行这项工作的时候了。

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He did not look much interested in the violin itself but in the whole person of Rudolf, his violin and his work.

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There's something in Eliot's--the presentation of Eliot's work and indeed in the work itself that is affronting, resistant, impersonal. And the typography, the presentation of the book is part of that.

艾略特的作品中有一点别的意义，作品展现出来的,本身有点冒犯，具有反抗性和个人性，印刷和，外观也展现了那些特征。

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You should be bringing some of the things we talked about when discussing his work, into dialogue with and in conflict with some of the evidence you'll be finding in the text itself.

我们需要回想以前讨论,在上帝与别人的对话中,你可以发现前后矛盾的地方。

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The work itself, which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, measures 325cm by 260cm.

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In an extreme, you have panic attacks and are afraid of your boss, colleagues or the work itself.

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Such indignation eclipses a far more interesting debate about the merits of the work itself and of modern French fiction.

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