"We just labored really hard to say, okay,we're audience members who made the first 'Iron Man' successful and we're smart, which is kind of why we were drawn to it;

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Yeats, in "Adam's Curse," regrets that the beautiful is something to be labored for and he wants to conceal that labor.

他在亚当的诅咒中后悔地称,这种美值得为之劳累,他想隐藏这种劳累。

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Unlike Nabokov, these writers are not trying to make a language that is autonomous and separate from the world, so you will not see the kind of artifice and the labored attention to form.

不同的是这些作家并不想要营造一种,独立的和世界分离的语言，所以你不会看到这方面的炼化技巧,和费劲地塑造。

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