Workers are sweating bullets over the possibility of job losses.

【sweat】工人们十分担心丢掉工作。

I wrote off my two years of sweating over that novel for just what they were worth — a noble experiment — and went forward from there.

我为了那本小说的价值——一项崇高的实验——而注销了我为那本小说付出的两年汗水，然后从那里继续前进。