Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it, regardless of what the job is, whether washing cars, sweeping the floor or painting a house.

每一份工作都是工作者本身的自画像，不管这份工作是什么——洗车、扫地或油漆房子。

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He's painting the house with a view to selling it.

他在粉刷房子，想把它卖掉。

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Fred did a grand job of painting the house.

弗雷德粉刷房子干得很出色。

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President Roosevelt had this painting hung in the White House as a celebration of American art and engineering.

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Speaking recently in Brussels, the IMF's Nemat Shafik compared such a process of internal devaluation to painting a house.

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S. in toxicology from the University of California, Davis, where he began managing a house-painting company.

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Raphael died his sudden Easter death in a house in this square, whilst painting Margherita's face into his Transfiguration.

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