[填空题]Many of the aids which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is (36) less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really (37) too much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted first, stains (38) by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed.
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