I had to be really persistent and it was very hard work.

我必须非常坚持，这是非常艰难的工作。

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Coping with three babies is very hard work.

照顾3个小宝宝是件很累人的活儿。

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It will probably take years of very hard work to build up the enterprise.

自己创业可能需要多年的艰苦工作去建立企业。

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Growing cacao is very hard work for farmers.

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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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Or perhaps, you could set a goal to lose weight and you could work very hard.

又或者，你制定了一个减肥的目标，你为此而努力坚持着。

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They do very hard work under very stressful circumstances, and almost invariably do an outstanding job.

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"I believe in two or three days of very hard work we could have a balanced budget agreement, " he said.

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We've had a good run of races, today's going to be very hard work for Ralf and for his very energetic team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya who was on the fourth row of the grid.

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