The end result is that I do get some stuff done, but not nearly as much as I could, if I freed up all this extra energy used in wasted thinking.

最终的结果虽然是完成了一些代办事项，但我本可以完成更多的任务，假如我没有把精力浪费在那些无用的思考上的话。

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"We have the technology," says an insider. "But the lesson of the 787 is that we could not get the production up to scratch in time."

一位波音公司的内部人士表示：“我们有技术，但787客机的教训在于我们不能及时生产出令人满意的产品。”

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Its sole purpose was to boot up and open a Mozilla based window manager - but then you could not get out of your browser window!

它的唯一目的就是启动电脑并且打开一个基于Mozilla的窗口管理器——但是那时你就无法跑出你的浏览器窗口了。

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But he could not get comfortable with operating a start-up there.

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But he could not get a work permit and last month he was picked up by the police and dumped in the Lindela deportation centre in Krugersdorp.

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Annette gets no benefit to make up her loss from the South African Government but others might and they could not get double provision out of the case.

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