The mass production of the automatic washing-machine freed women, or their staff, from many hours spent elbow-deep in the laundry sink.
洗衣机大量的生产把妇女和从业者从每天耗费数小时在齐肘深的池子里刷洗的功夫解放出来。
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Some of the world's national oil companies may have run into such tough production problems by then that they'd be more willing to take on equity partners with very deep pockets.
It has taken advantage of this expertise in offshore exploration and production to win contracts to develop deep-water fields in countries like Angola and Nigeria.