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。

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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。

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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。

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What we have done is pushed back the Taliban and what we have done also is start to break that chain of terror that links the mountains of Afghanistan and in Pakistan to the streets of Britain,"

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Now, to do that, the first thing we had to do was break the back of this recession.

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All sides used dramatic acts of violence and brutality to try to break the back of the enemy.

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So when I took office, we knew the first thing we had to do was to break the back of this recession.

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