based on data from ubs, an average worker in japan needs to toil for around 155 minutes to buy a dvd, whereas mexicans must put their noses to the grindstone for about 280 minutes.
瑞银集团的数据显示,日本普通工人若想买到一张dvd得苦干155分钟左右,与此同时,墨西哥人则要勤劳不懈地工作280分钟。
the poor ballet dancer must devote years of incessant toil to her profitless task before she can shine in it.
可怜的芭蕾舞演员必须把多年不断的辛劳献给她无益的苦差事,之后她才能在芭蕾上大放异彩。
it is such croesus-like sums that make start-ups worth all the toil and trouble.
这可真是一个大手笔,创业公司所有的辛劳和困苦这下都值回了。
furthermore, that toil isn「t always rewarded with a solid insurance package--the city also has the highest percentage of people without any type of health care, at 25%.
此外,辛苦的工作并不总能换来一份坚实的保险计划——休斯顿没有任何形式的健康保障的人所占的比例是在所有城市中最高的,为25%。
toil and sweat done, an apprentice meditates before a shinto shrine.
一个新手在付出辛劳和汗水后蹲坐在神社前。
the toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.
沿途的辛苦正是它们本性写意,是它们为之奋斗的一切,也是它们唯一引以为荣的东西。
hamad dreamed up the idea and had his workmen toil for weeks to craft the enormous piece of sand graffiti .
哈马德自己想出了这个主意,工人辛苦工作数周,在沙滩上造出巨型签名。
moreover, with living standards rising across china, fewer of today」s rural youth will want to go to coastal regions to toil for 60 hours a week on an assembly line and live in a cramped dormitory.
此外,随着全国生活水平的提高,愿意去沿海地区,在生产线上一周苦干60小时,住狭窄宿舍的农村青年越来越少了。
its manufacturing workers toil for a small fraction of the cost of their american or german competitors.
中国工人们夜以继日的辛苦工作,获得的收入却比他们远在美国和德国的竞争对手少得多。
it becomes economical to automate some aspects of the work, employing machines to do the deadening humdrum toil that men and women are no longer willing to put up with.
把一部分工作自动化、使用机器去做那些男人和女人都不愿再忍受的、减弱的、乏味的、劳累的工作将会变得经济。
in 1930 john maynard keynes imagined that richer societies would become more leisured ones, liberated from toil to enjoy the finer things in life.
1930年凯恩斯曾经设想:越富裕的社会将变得越清閑,人们从苦力劳动中解脱出来享受美好的生活。
we see on every hand the results of the farmer’s toil and forecast in the springtime.
从每一位农民的手上,我们看到了辛勤劳作的成果和春天期望的实现。