spadework
n [U] (fig 比喻) hard work done in preparation for sth 艰苦的准备工作
She got the praise for the job but he did all the spadework. 工作完成後她获得赞誉, 但筹备期间的苦活儿全是他干的.
🗣️ 情景例句
I'll call and find out.
我打电话问看看。
We are running on two shifts.
我们实行的工作是两班倒。
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.