"Hard yakka" nghĩa là gì?

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"Hard yakka" -> nghĩa là làm việc chăm chỉ, hết sức mình.

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"That's fair enough, I've got the greatest respect for shearers (người xén lông cừu) — it's a very tough gig," he said. "It's one of the last of the really hard yakka jobs going around and they earn every dollar they get."

For five years, Miss Rigney ran the whole department by herself, including organising (tổ chức), shopping, gathering resources and planning lessons. "That was hard yakka," she said. "But then I got an assistant and two part-time colleagues to help things run more smoothly.

It's not every day you get to hoist (kéo) the sails of a vintage ship and circumnavigate secluded bays by wind power and hard yakka alone. Welcome aboard the R Tucker Thompson in the Bay of Islands, a traditional gaff-rigged schooner, channelling all the good looks of a 19th-century tall ship and available for one-day voyages (chuyến đi), shorter sundowner sailings and three-day sojourns for the truly adventurous.

Gone are the days of the buff ‘tradies’ dominating (thống trị) the heavy lifting on site. There is equipment available so a ‘weaker’ woman or slight man is just as capable of doing the hard yakka, she says.

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