Attention becomes an important asset, something to be valued, not wasted.

关注度成了一项重要的资产，值得被珍惜并慎重对待，决不能随意浪费掉。

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Our work was not wasted. The time-taking negotiations were worth our while.

我们的工作没有白做，这种费时的磋商还是值得的。

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Iran has not wasted the intervening year and is always looking for signs of weakness.

伊朗没有浪费这一年，一直在寻找喘气的机会。

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They want to make sure their financial investment is not being wasted.

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In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

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Since these operations are expensive to pull off, assets are not wasted on noisy DDoS attacks.

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In order for the public to know that money is not wasted, two things are needed.

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So the answer is lines of communication remain open and we hope that this opportunity is not wasted.

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