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hard work (uncountable)
- Something requiring much effort to accomplish, either physical, mental or emotional; labor; toil. (This entry is a translation hub.)
2011 November 12, Phil McNulty, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport[1]:Capello was keen to use Phil Jones, normally a defender, in central midfield - but it was hard work for the Manchester United teenager and his England colleagues in the first half as Spain predictably dominated possession.
something requiring lots of effort to do
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 努力 (zh) (nǔlì), 辛苦 (zh) (xīnkǔ), 辛勤工作 (xīnqín gōngzuò)
- Dalmatian: fataica f
- Finnish: kova työ
- French: labeur (fr) m, travail acharné m
- German: harte Arbeit f, Schufterei (de) f
- Greek: μόχθος (el) m (móchthos), κόπος (el) m (kópos)
- Hungarian: kemény/fárasztó/fáradságos/kimerítő munka, robotolás (hu), gürcölés (hu), gürizés, vesződés (hu), küszködés (hu), kínlódás (hu), erőlködés (hu), bajlódás (hu), erőfeszítés (hu), vesződség (hu), fáradozás (hu)
- Icelandic: erfiðisvinna f, erfiði (is) n
- Irish: luain f
- Italian: faticata (it) f, operosità (it) f
- Polish: wysiłek (pl) m, ciężka praca f
- Russian: тяжёлая рабо́та f (tjažólaja rabóta), тяжёлый труд m (tjažólyj trud), труд (ru) m (trud)
- Sanskrit: श्रम (sa) m (śráma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тру̑д m
- Roman: trȗd (sh) m
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