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Mr Scheuer says analysis was “backbreaking”, especially for Arabic names, because it involvedmanually compiling lists of variations deemed worthy of tracing.
斯奇乌尔先生讲述道，对名字的变体进行分析与匹配是一种极其艰苦的工作，尤其是分析阿拉伯人的名字，因为它包括一些手工编译的名字变体清单，而这些都是值得去追踪的。
And no one should want to sugar coat the tougher side of life here either, including long shifts at backbreaking jobs for low pay that is familiar to American workers.
但并没人想体验那种包上糖衣的艰难的生活，包括像美国工人一样为了很低的薪水而长时间地干一些累人的工作。

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