There was a jobofwork waiting for him that he was not looking forward to.
有一件他不想干但又必须完成的工作在等待着他。
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Whenever I looked over at Keith, he would gleam his teeth at me and shake his head all wry, as if to say, “Odd jobofwork, isn’t it?”
每次我一看基斯,他就亮出大牙,向我摇头苦笑,仿佛在说:“这差事够奇怪的,是不是?”
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You think what you think. As a literary interpreter, you're bound to have some opinion about what you're looking at, so just get on with it. Express that opinion, that's your jobofwork.