By working smart you can save a ridiculous amount of time you would have otherwise been spinning your wheels.

巧干可以为你节省大量时间而不会让你忙的团团转。

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This is a great way to give new life to books that are falling apart, torn, missing covers or pages, or would have otherwise been thrown away.

对于快散架的、已经撕破的、缺皮少页的书们，这是一个起死回生的好办法，想想它们原本会被草草扔掉！

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With all my recent business travel, this shortcut has saved hours of my life that would have otherwise been spent on MapQuest... which makes MapQuest obsolete.

这个快捷方式给我最近的出差省了大量的时间，而如果你还在用MapQuest的话，那你就OUT了。

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La Brea scientists had a chance to investigate an area that otherwise would have been impossible to study.

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It means the company went bankrupt and never paid; otherwise, the coupons would have been clipped.

这意味着那家公司破产了,无法兑现,否则,息票肯定会被剪掉

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The second one, I guess, involves an active choice of pushing a person down which I guess that person himself would otherwise not have been involved in the situation at all.

我认为第二种情况，牵涉到主动选择推人,而被推的这个人,本来跟这事件一点关系都没有。

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The same is true if a spouse fails to disclose an asset that would have otherwise been 100% the separate property of the non-disclosing spouse.

FORBES: The Four Divorce Alternatives

The unleashing of market forces has produced far more flights, to far more destinations, at considerably lower fares than would have otherwise been the case.

ECONOMIST: Is more regulatory reform the answer?

His starting-point must be that any action should provide consumers with choices they do not have today, and also stimulate innovation that would have otherwise been chilled.

ECONOMIST: Now bust Microsoft��s trust