It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a personal essay.

这再简单不过了，除了要附加一篇个人论文，其余工作只需忙碌20分钟（就可以搞定）。

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

生活就是一连串的无事忙。

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Imagine that you go to spend your holiday with your family after days of busy and tiresome work.

想像一下，在接连几天的繁重工作后，你好不容易可以与家人去度假。

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He was surprised by the large number of busy people in the subway who stopped to listen.

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If Haze is busy looking at something, what he's looking at is manifestly not the person in front of him.

如果当时Haze的目光,正专注于什么，那也显然不是面前的这个人。

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So every day is like very busy and a lot of different things to see and do.

因此每天都过得非常忙碌，有很多事情去看去做。

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Many get run over as they instinctively cross a number of busy roads around the village.

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Also, Carl Icahn is sort of busy right now, harassing Netflix and Take-Two, among others.

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This strategy will work because it changes the default behavior of busy people from political passivity to activism.

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