Which means there is only one solution left: a long, slow, boring, lonely, soul-crushing process of digging out from under the piles of debt that got us into this mess.
Piles of work have kept us busy — so much so that we can't manage to take a holiday this year.
一大堆的工作搞得我们很忙，忙得今年都没法度假了。
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In fact, previous efforts have taught us that if local tastes and preferences are not considered, people will simply not use the stoves, and we'll find them stacked in piles of refuse.