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One case in point is Fincera, a Chinese transportation services company based in Shijiazhuang, the drab capital of an equally unglamorous province, Hebei.

位于石家庄的中国运输服务企业开元金融（Fincera）就是一个很好的例子。灰蒙蒙的石家庄是同样乏味的河北省的省会。

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such unglamorous work demonstrates their commitment to their country's environment.

如此枯燥的工作证明了他们对祖国环境事业所肩负的责任

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But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.

但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业，纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。

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Germany has belatedly discovered that its sober, solid and deliberately unglamorous leader is really the person calling the shots across the continent.

德国人终于迟钝地发现，他们这位冷静、可靠、故意显得毫无光彩的领导人，实际上是整个欧洲的发号施令者。

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Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.

布鲁斯的办公室在角落里，实用而普通。

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Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.

毫不张扬地, 通常是悄无声息地, 全球金融流通管道堵塞了.

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Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all in.

回顾我的第一份工作，即便我被要求去做一些看似很卑微、单调或者非常困难的事情时，我也会全力以赴。

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Even in the exciting, leading-edge world of innovation, unglamorous management basics matter.

即便在一个激动人心且技术领先的创新世界里，单调的管理学基本原则仍然发挥着重要作用。

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What these companies also have in common are unglamorous surroundings.

这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调。

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Predictability is considered boring and unglamorous, in a world that reveres creativity and disruption.

在这个崇尚创造力和颠覆的世界，可预测性被视为一种无趣和缺乏魅力的特质。

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For decades, iron ore was plentiful, prices were stable and mining the commodity was a monotonous and unglamorous business.

在长达数十年中，铁矿石储量丰富，价格稳定，开采这种大宗商品是一个单调乏味的行当。

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Germany's much-lauded Mittelstand companies have succeeded through foresight and by specialising in the unglamorous business of making parts for complex final products.

德国备受称赞的中小型企业的成功是因为它们有远见，并在制造复杂最终产物的元部件的单调生意上有所专长。

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The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.

这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边，只收取很少的费用。

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Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.

午餐绝非令人想望的事情。

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Avoid public transport at all costs, it's far too unglamorous.

不惜一切代价避免公共交通工具，这让你显得太没有魅力了。

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An unglamorous job greasing engines.

给机器加润滑油的单调工作。

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It is relatively slow, unglamorous and, assuming the rest of the journey is by car, not even environmentally friendly.

渡轮速度相对较慢，单调乏味，一般剩下的旅程还得坐车，渡轮甚至还不环保。

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Realities: It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct, a centrist policy.

现实情况: 阐述一项不偏不倚的政策是乏味的, 执行这项政策更为复杂.

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We know that seniority, especially in finance, is a long, hard, unglamorous slog.

我们知道,晋升至高管职位 —— 尤其是在金融业 —— 是漫长 、 艰难而乏味的旅途.

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Their work is hard and unglamorous, and most people would find it boring.

他们的工作又累又平淡，多数人会认为很乏味。

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What these companies also in common are unglamorous surroundings.

这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调.

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Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible, the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.

毫不张扬地，通常是悄无声息地，全球金融流通管道堵塞了。

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It was all about cleaning up Germany, and the West, and the world, and ridding it of anything unglamorous.

主要内容是赶走德国人，西方世界，乃至全世界，并且去掉任何单调乏味的东西。

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an unglamorous job

乏味的工作

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But fundamentally, it performs an unglamorous function in a utilitarian way.

但是基本上, 它还是功利性地扮演一个没有趣味的功能角色.

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Mango is aiming at an unglamorous market, the unbanked.

芒果金融定位于一个单调的市场，即无银行账号的人。

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The enterprise side is much less visible and frankly a little unglamorous, but just as important as the consumer side.

相比之下，企业软件市场没有如此引人注目，坦率地说甚至有点乏善可陈，但仍然和消费科技领域同等重要。

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He squeezed working capital, an unglamorous tactic that pays handsomely.

此外，他还压缩了营运资本，这种策略看似平常，却能得到丰厚的回报。

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This is all pretty unglamorous stuff, you could say better, though, than the alternative.

你会说，这些措施听上去都相当乏味，但总比其它选择都要好。

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Once cars lose speed and power, they become unglamorous everyday tools, like washing machines, and nobody, presumably, derives status from their washing machine.

一旦汽车失去了速度和超强动力，它们就变成了洗衣机似的单调乏味的日用工具。我想，没人靠洗衣机体现自身社会地位。

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