1. But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. 但这并非一日之功,也不是单凭一蹴而就的事。
2. This is the most onerous task I have ever undertaken. 这是我承担过的最艰巨的任务.
3. Many a weary stroke it had cost, you may be sure, and there remained nothing but to get it into the water; and had I succeeded in getting it into the water, I feel certain that I should have begun the maddest voyage that was ever undertaken by man. 造这只船,我不知凿多少下,说筋疲力尽,那一点也不假,剩下的问题只是怎样把它弄下水去。假如我把它弄下了水,我敢肯定,我准会进行人类有史以来最荒唐的航行了。