We've been doing things a specific way for a long time, and that's hard to abandon, even for more efficiency, given the number of processes that would need to change along with it.

我们长期来都以精确的方式做事情，因为很多的程序也要随之一起改变，所以从效率的角度，我们也很难放弃。

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In love, you are doing everything we can to pay, sometimes only for doing everything they can to abandon.

在爱情里面，你竭尽所能地付出，有时只会换来竭尽所能的嫌弃。

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To abandon what one is doing or planning to do.

放弃某人正在做的或打算做的。

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This is particularly astonishing since doing so requires him to abandon his own, sensible precondition of just a few months ago: No emigration bill no waiver of Jackson-Vanik.

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On the positive side, the Palestinian decision to abandon the peace process provides Israel with justification for doing the same.

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You might expect him, therefore, to be the first to abandon the president as Senator McCain gets ready for his own White House run, but he's not doing that.

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