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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Get one important thing done.

处理一件重要的事情。

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I hate a thing done by halves2.

我痛恨做事半途而废。

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But that was probably the best thing I could have done. She looked at it.It was pathetic.

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I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

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Because it implies that it seems as if the person you are speaking with has never done that thing.

因为你在暗示跟你谈话的人似乎根本没做过那件事。

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In my old paperback, Tolkien gets the whole thing done in two hundred and eighty pages, nineteen chapters in all.

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And again, we've already identified 14 high-profile, high-impact projects where we are streamlining our ability to get this thing done.

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"That gave me the confidence that there are enough people that care about computing to get this kind of thing done, " he said.

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