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link 30.07.2005 10:31 |
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Subject: Работа была потогонной Времена перестройки. У должностного лица в кабинете куча талонов на продукты. И он говорит: "Но работа была настолько потогонной, что я даже не успел возспользоваться благами - изобилием талонов в моем кабинете".Я перевела как: "My job kept me sweating, so I didn’t have the chance to make hay while the sun shined." |
| The job was backbreaking, and I didnt have time to enjoy the benefits.. |
| А может немного отойти. I bogged down in the paperwork and ... |
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Вариант: it was a sweatshop (experience) |
| yep, it's "sweatshop". |
| sweatshop also sweat shop (sweatshops) If you describe a small factory as a sweatshop, you mean that many people work there in poor conditions for low pay. (one of the meanings) |
| Personally, I would not use "sweatshop work" in this case since it means a low pay, overtime, undepressure (usually emigrants), forced labour. |
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