1. Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.
    事实上，修理工作远不是那么简单。

2. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
    他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作14个小时。

3. If there had not been a hard layer of rock beneath the soil, they would have completed the job in a few hours.
    如果不是因为土壤下面有一层坚硬的岩石，他们的营救工作仅用几个小时就可以完成了。

4. I paid the last of it the week you finished your last job.
    你干完上个活时，我刚好还清。

5. In the U. S., however, it is taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem, or fulfill a job successfully, with speed.
    但在美国，能迅速而又成功地解决问题或完成工作，则被视为是有水平、有能力的标志。

6. I am going to stay in my home town and have a nice comfortable career in a salaried job."
    我打算留在我家乡，找一个舒适的、拿薪水的好工作。"

7. I become faster and neater each day. I'm outdoors in clean air. And, contrary to what people think, I don't get dirty on the job.
    我越干越快，越干越利索。在室外干活还可以呼吸新鲜空气。而且完全不像人们认为的那样，我干的活儿其实很干净。

8. I'm impressed. "President" is a great job name, although, let's face it, not as great as "nomad."
    这话叫我忘不了。"总裁"可是个了不起的职务，虽然--让我们面对它吧-- 还不如"游牧者"那么好听。

9. It seems they could not find the right kind of tape to put on cars while they painted them. Either the tape stuck too much and ruined the paint job or it fell off too soon and the paint ran onto another part of the car.
    好像是他们找不到一种在给汽车喷漆时可以贴在车上的合适的胶带。要么是胶带太粘，结果把刚喷好的漆也弄坏了；要么是胶带脱落得太快，结果油漆流到了汽车的其他部位。

10. In Japan the Western deadline approach is secondary to a thorough job.
    在日本，有始有终的工作比西方人对工作采取最后期限的态度更受推崇。