n.<口>外出搜集情况的工作（如新闻采访、案件调查等）
He asked someone else to do all the legwork of gathering information.
他叫了别人来做所有搜集资料的跑腿活.
By writing, you are doing the legwork in understanding other poets.
通过写作, 你其实是在积累知识了解了其它的诗人.
What I do is a kind of legwork.
我干的是跑腿儿的活.
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