A study shows that 16% of the bar and pub owners are upset to notice a drop in business, because smokers prefer killing time at home and seldom go out for a drink.

一项研究表明，16%的酒吧和酒馆老板因注意到生意下降而感到不快，因为吸烟者更喜欢在家里消磨时间，很少出去喝酒。

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Killing time is the main reason for me to watch the short videos, but many are almost the same, so I think it is a waste of time.

对我来说，看短视频的主要原因是消磨时间，但它们大多数几乎都一样，所以我觉得这是浪费时间。

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Now she is killing time with a colleague, waiting for the night train.

现在，她正和一位工友一起打发时间，等待夜间火车进站。

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But for a long time I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me.

然而很长一段时间里,一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话，“

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Gilbert said police thought they'd caught a break in 2004 when convicted sex offender Edward Dukette, who served time in a Florida prison for raping and nearly killing a young girl, unexpectedly came forward to police claiming he had key information about Kathy Gloddy's murder.

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Inmates had been (very occasionally) killing guards for a long time, but the timing of the murders, and the fact that they took place in a climate already prepared to believe that even ordinary humanity was wasted on the criminal classes, meant that the entire prison was put on permanent lockdown.

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Even poisoning, for a long time the best way to hide a killing, may have become more difficult.

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