legwork

noun

1. 跑腿活儿；吃力不讨好的活儿
   difficult or boring work that takes a lot of time and effort, but that is thought to be less important

1. What I do is a kind of legwork.
   我干的是跑腿儿的活。
2. To make this vision a reality, however, data pros behind the scenes must do a considerable amount of legwork on the back end.
   但是，要将这一愿景变为现实，幕后的数据专业人员必须在后端执行大量的后勤工作。
3. Writing tests that reach more code and therefore exercise more functionality usually takes more legwork in the form of adjunct frameworks.
   编写具有更多代码（从而可实现更多功能）的测试通常要以附属框架的形式执行更多的调查工作。
4. The JSF specification actually does some of the data selection legwork for you.
   JSF规范实际上为您处理了一些数据选择收集工作。
5. With movers giving you quotes, you can save time by not having to do the legwork and maybe save some cash, too.
   搬家公司给你报价后，你可以节省收集情报的时间，可能还会帮你省一些钱。
6. If you are thirty-plus and a woman with a masters degree in South Korea, you may need the help of a matchmaker to find love-and your worried mother may even end up doing the legwork for you.
   如果你是一个三十多岁的韩国女硕士，那么你可能需要媒人的帮助才能找到爱情，你那忧心忡忡的妈妈甚至可能亲自跑腿给你物色对象。
7. He asked someone else to do all the legwork of gathering information.
   他叫了别人来做所有搜集资料的跑腿活。
8. You have this great idea for a new software program that is sure to make bank for the company, but it requires a ton of legwork to get up and running.
   你有个非常好的软件项目想法，肯定能为公司赚大钱，但这需要大量的跑腿活来启动和运行。
9. Mr Nicholson cautions that foreign investors contemplating sensitive acquisitions in future "will have to do extra legwork".
   尼科尔森警告称，未来有意在敏感领域收购的外国投资者“将不得不进行额外的情况搜集工作”。
10. On Wednesdays I write an agony aunt column in which I invite readers to do half the legwork by sending in problems and writing answers to other people's problems.
    每周三我都会写一篇读者来信专栏文章，邀请读者发问题过来，并回答其他人的问题，以此省去了一半外出搜集情报的工作。
11. The government reviews the results and decides whether further legwork is warranted& and, ultimately, whether to pursue charges.
    政府对结果进行检查并决定是否有开展进一步外勤工作的必要性以及最终是否要提起诉讼。
12. Nor is impossible for a fund of funds to do the legwork to ensure that hedge fund managers possess more than a glittering investment story and a secretive attitude.
    基金的基金也并非不可能进行相关调查，确保对冲基金经理不仅仅拥有光彩照人的投资故事和行事隐秘的作风。
13. He leaves someone else to do all the legwork of gathering information while he sits in the office and collates it.
    当他坐在办公室里整理资料时，他让别人去做所有收集资料的跑腿工作。
14. I'm just trying to cut down your legwork.
    我只是试着减少一下你的外勤工作量。
15. Stephanie plans and writes the books herself, but she has an assistant who does the legwork, gathering background information and other facts.
    斯苔芬妮自己构思写书，但是她有一个助手帮她跑腿，搜集背景材料和其他信息。