spadework

n.

挖掘的工作，基本研究，费力的基础工作；

1. She get the praise for the job but he do all the spadework.
   工作完成后她获得赞誉，但筹备期间的苦活儿全是他干的。
2. She got the praise for the job but he did all the spadework.
   工作完成後她获得赞誉，但筹备期间的苦活儿全是他干的。

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Spadework
Spade Work
Spadework Prior to Deduction in Geometry
Spadework in the Arctic. (Book Reviews: Soils of the Polar Landscapes)
The Field on the Page: How Archaeologists Scripted Spadework
Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
Conceptual analysis of mathematical ideas: Some spadework at the foundation of mathematics education
When causality does not imply correlation: more spadework at the foundations of scientific psychology.
Quantitative analysis of purposive systems: Some spadework at the foundations of scientific psychology.
Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies by Sarah Carter (review)
Review: Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies by Sarah Carter
Carter , Sarah – Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies.