Their lack of water was not for want of backbreaking work in trying to find the stuff.

缺水的原因不是他们没有付出足够的努力。

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Buffett was horrified that he performed such backbreaking work only to earn pennies an hour.

巴菲特为他每小时工作才赚取十几美分的回报感到震惊。

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To get these he needs a regular paying job that doesn't require backbreaking work in the fields.

为了得到这些，一个人需要稳定的收入而不是在地里辛劳的工作。

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But, we've come a long way since the backbreaking work of the 1920s.

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In the countryside the men have the backbreaking work of farming without mechanisation: again, fuel is dear, and many powered irrigation systems have broken down.

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He was doing backbreaking work and hated it, but one co-worker's comment gave him food for thought: There were so many other jobs out there, you could conceivably work at a different one every day for of the rest of your life.

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