Lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs.

电梯停止了工作，所以即使你足够幸运没有被困在两层楼之间，你也要经历一项艰难的任务，要找到通往下几百层楼的路。

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An unpleasant task.

一个烦人的任务。

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Eat the Frog: Do your most unpleasant task first.

先吞下青蛙：最先做你最不愿意的事情。

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Increasing it by five years, Lady Justice Hallett said watching the footage had been "an extraordinarily unpleasant task".

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Parker, who felt that he had earned the right to the big office, had the unpleasant task of helping to pick his new boss.

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