To be honest, we used to spin our work out and try to kill time in the old society.

过去旧社会，我们做起事来，老实讲，是磨洋工。

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Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration.

遗忘显然有助于时间的定位，因为旧的记忆会减弱，新的记忆会突显出来，从而为推断持续的时间提供线索。

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Prior to beginning his design, the architect spent some time in the client's old home, observing their life and studying their habits.

在开始设计之前，建筑师在客户原来的房子待了一段时间，观察他们的生活，研究他们的习惯。

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They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

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And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

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It's just this double bind of vocation that's the subject of Sonnet VII, "How soon hath Time." That's the sonnet in which Milton laments the fact that he has turned twenty-three years old and has yet produced nothing that would indicate a shining poetic future.

第七篇十四行诗的主题就是这种职业窘境，“时间过得多快啊，“弥尔顿在这首诗里表达了,对自己都快23岁却没创作出什么,可以显示出他卓越天赋的诗的哀伤。

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On May 27, 1935 afterward known as Black Monday the Supreme Court met, for very nearly the last time, in the Old Senate Chamber.

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Sounds ok until you realize that 99.9% of your time is spent in the OLD DESKTOP.

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Huddersfield, twice beaten by the Warriors already this season, then went in front for the first time when another Wigan old boy Robinson finished off a messy try in the left corner.

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