Journalism, as a veteran scribe once put it, is a rough old trade.
就像一个老文书说过的，新闻业是个麻烦的老行业。
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In what Mr Audrines describes as a barter arrangement (in which the Cubans seem to get the rough end), Caracas will trade them for eight macaws, two tapirs, a puma and four capybaras.