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dirty work

脏活累活,肮脏的工作,脏活儿,脏活

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
    • : any illegal or dishonest dealing.

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Examples

  • “Just because you have one of your henchmen do your dirty work doesn’t make you any less responsible,” Geddes said.

  • There’s a gigantic immigration detention facility in southern Mexico, where Mexico does a lot of the dirty work of the United States by detaining people who’ve crossed the border with Guatemala.

  • “I don’t want to do your dirty work for you,” she told the executives.

  • While venom usually does its dirty work via injection, there are some examples of cone snails releasing chemicals into the water column.

  • Instead, have to rely on Pikmin to do the dirty work for them.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

  • “I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

  • So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

  • To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

  • In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

  • The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.

  • Entrez donc, 'tis the work of one of your compatriots; and here, though a heretic, you may consider yourself on English ground.