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1·It took them all day to break the back of the job.

他们干了一整天才把工作的最主要部分完成了。

2·It took a month to break the back of the decorating.

花了一个月时间完成了装修任务的最艰难部分。

3·I should break the back of this piece of the work by this weekend.

到这个周末我应该完成这件工作中最艰巨的部分。

4·Defeat in North Carolina seemed to break the back of the entire fundamentalist crusade.

在北卡罗来纳的失败，似乎使整个原教旨主义运动再也无能为力了。

5·It is a strong statement by the Fed that it is going to take massive, broad, forceful efforts to try to break the back of [resolve] the crisis, he said.

美联储的行动已经强有力地说明，我们需要采取大规模的、广泛的、强有力的努力来破解这场危机。

6·We'll be back after the break with a round-up of today's other stories.

休息之后我们会摘要报道今天其他的新闻。《牛津词典》

7·More than a thousand people claim to have seen the bulbous back of an unidentified creature briefly break the glassy surface of Loch Ness, then disappear.

一千余人声称见到了一个未经确认的动物，短暂地穿出尼斯湖光亮透明的水面，然后逐渐消失。

8·Going back to language, think about what you make sense of when people speak: they mumble, break all the rules of grammar, slur words and so on.

再说回到语言，想想人们说话时你的感觉：他们咕哝、打破所有语法规则、吞音等等。

9·In a phone interview while driving back into Libya from Egypt after a brief break, he discussed the tragic deaths of Hetherington and Hondros and why war reporters do what they do.

在从埃及的一短暂休息后返回利比亚的途中，他接受了一次电话采访，期间他谈到了海瑟林顿和洪德罗斯的悲剧性死亡以及为什么战地记者要那样冒着危险报道。

10·Everything has become the last. The last Lunch Stop, the last Toilet Break, the last time Charlie Flicks the Back of Your Chair - and the last time many of us will see each other.

每件事情都变成“最后一次”，最后的停车吃午饭、最后的停车上厕所、最后一次要查理把椅背收起等等，还有我们许多人都是最后一次相见了。