We live in a world that valorizes this idea of work. We talk about work using phrases like, “keep your nose to the grindstone” and “no pain, no gain.

我们生活在一个工作概念模式化的世界里，谈起工作，我们常会引用一些短语，比如：“埋头苦干”和“种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆”。

youdao

While its important to keep your nose to the grindstone and get work done (that is presumably why you're working overtime in the first place), make sure you take a break every now and then.

然后重要的是埋头苦干的同时，要找到你做完的事情，这也许就是你当初要加班的原因。

youdao

I'm sure that if you just keep your nose to the grindstone, you'll get the results you want.

我相信如果你坚持埋头苦干，你就会得到你想要的结果。

youdao

He is considered nosey. Someone who keeps his nose to the grindstone works very hard.

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And we need to keep our nose to the grindstone and keep working hard to continue that growth and continue that job creation.

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It wouldn't give her the same kind of immediacy and as Ken alluded to before, you know, the nose to the grindstone in the Senate really was just a stepping stone to run for president.

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For his part, Loeb is simply keeping his nose to the grindstone.

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