Even if the environment is dynamic underneath, people go to great pains to make it look predictable.
2
她费尽心力进行购买,务求物美价廉;可是逐渐有人在报上指责她。
She had shopped hard and bought well; but now charges of extravagance crept into the papers.
3
尤其是海外工程,我须费尽心力去协调不同单位的人,统合使其意见为一。
With overseas projects in particular, I get quite exhausted just from the effort involved in coordinating the views of the different teams and unifying them into one.