It's funny how I never seem to get a thing done on my day off.

好笑的是，在休息日里我好像从没做成一件事。

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I hate a thing done by halves2.

我痛恨做事半途而废。

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Lately he hasn't done a thing and it's getting on my nerves.

最近他什么都没做，这让我大为恼火。

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"I think it's a good thing, they probably should have done it a few weeks ago when they were saying it was the gas pedal and the floor mats."

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So one of the things that we've done for a while now is, we have this thing called Director Day.

所以我们一直在做的是，设立董事日。

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And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

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If one chooses to believe progressing in a game is a thing to be done without real world money, by all means do so.

FORBES: EA Plans on Putting Microtransactions in All of its Games

Not missing a chance to tweak the president, he says that Mr. Obama has "not done a thing" on reform and may prefer to keep it alive as an electoral winner for Democrats with Hispanics for years to come.

WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Marco Rubio: Riding to the Immigration Rescue

How can a company that has done one thing for over a century suddenly claim, without batting an eyelid, that it is in fact better at something else entirely?

ECONOMIST: Westinghouse RIP