They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

他们认为有天赋或智慧的人不需要努力就能做好。

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So, companies will need to work hard to persuade workers that robots are productivity-enhancers, not just job-eating aliens.

所以，企业必须努力说服劳动者机器人是强化生产者，不仅仅是吃职位的外星人。

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Although smart kids may not need to work hard in the lower grades, when the work is easy, they may struggle and perform poorly when the work gets harder because they do not make the effort to learn.

虽然聪明的小孩可能没有必要在学习简单的低年级功课时刻苦努力，但是当课程加深后他们会学地很费力而且成绩很差，原因在于他们并没有认真去学。

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But with so many potential new customers, the banks do not need to work that hard to turn a profit.

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They may want to come back home to help with the family, but on the other hand they think they need to work as hard as possible otherwise they may not get promoted, or they may lose their job.

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So even as we're tackling issues of supply and demand, even as we're looking at the long-term in terms of how we can structurally make ourselves less reliant on foreign oil, we still need to work extra hard to protect consumers from factors that should not affect the price of a barrel of oil.

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