Some fool even themselves, until some life event—a layoff, an empty nest, an inheritance that frees them to spend time as they like—jolts them into taking stock of their true natures.
有些人甚至欺骗了自己，直到生活中发生了一些事情——失业、空巢、一笔可以让他们自由支配时间的遗产——让他们开始审视自己的本性。
At McDonald's, customers will spend on average three minutes and nine seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.
在麦当劳，顾客从下单到收到食物的平均时间为3分9秒。
For example, if a client asked to put their order on hold, you could suspend the process for seven days, or until a specific date and time.
例如，如果客户要求暂缓他们的订单，您可以在七天时间内或在特定的日期和时间之前挂起该流程。
You don't know if a market opportunity exists until a real customer thinks enough of your idea to part with their scarce money or time to get it.
你不知道一个市场机会的存在，直到一个真正的客户反复权衡你的产品，最后费尽千辛万苦地与他们宝贵的金钱、时间分开，将其转让给你。
Much like human children, baby orangutans remain dependent on their moms for a long time, sometimes being carried most of the time until they're 5 years old.
幼猩猩很像人类的儿童，在很长一段时间内仍然依赖它们的妈妈，有时大部分时间被妈妈携带着直到5岁。
Everything they see for the first time is elementary to their sense of beauty and creativity; they see only merit and excellence in the world until educated otherwise.
孩子们初次见到的东西对于他们是形成美感以及创造力的基础。 在接受相关教育之前，他们应当只会看到世上美好的事物。
And if you try to ration the time they can spend (say, "only until lunch") they spend all the time away from the screen moping like addicts looking for their hit.
如果你尝试限制他们玩游戏的时间(比如说，只能玩到午饭时间)，那么他们一旦离开电脑屏幕，都会像瘾君子一样愁眉苦脸，想尽办法寻求他们的刺激。
The Heat sleepwalk through some games, look like world-beaters in others and seem to be biding their time until the playoffs.
季后赛到来之前，他们在一些比赛中梦游，在另一些比赛中又像是主宰，似乎在等待时机。
Up until the age of four, most of their time is spent at home or nearby.
儿童四岁之前的大部分时间是在家里或周围地区。
The use of a central bank’s balance-sheet to restore liquidity to financial markets simply buys time until banks restructure their own balance-sheets.
为恢复金融市场的流动性而使用各中央银行资产负债表仅仅是为银行重建他们自身的资产负债表争取时间。
The tulip season begins in March and lasts until August with several shows held across the country, but the flowers are undoubtedly at their most spectacular at this time of year.
郁金香花季从三月持续到八月，期间全国各地都有郁金香展，然而这个季节的无疑是最为繁盛的。
But those who are unhappy with the system are in the minority; the majority of them are satisfied with their lot and are biding time until they too take up more senior positions.
不满意学术体系的终究只占少数，大部分人还是安于命运，耐心等待，直到自己也获得更高的地位。
They responded in a perfectly normal human way: they bided their time until they could crush the agile initiative, and then they did so quickly and firmly.
他们的做法很常见：投入时间直到能消除敏捷余孽，出手迅速而且坚定。
In fact, most of the people who spend their days "Facebooking," never seem to take the time to worry about who's seeing what... until it's too late.
事实上，那些整天上Facebook的人中的绝大多数似乎从没有花时间去担忧谁在看什么- - -直到为时已晚。
Other times they copy their chromosomes but hold off parceling them out to their army of offspring until the time is right.
有的时候，它们会先复制下染色体，但是会等到特定的时间再集中生成后代。
At the same time, they cannot enroll their children in city schools or benefit from many other public services until they have been officially acknowledged as permanent urban residents.
同时，他们不能把自己的孩子送到城市中去读书，或者享受城里其他的公共服务，直到他们身份转为永久城市居民为止。
The Obamas themselves spend time together morning and night, often not beginning their schedules until 9am or 10am, and nearly always eating together.
奥巴马夫妇之间早晨和夜晚一起渡过，他们的日程表通常直到早晨9点或10点才开始，他们几乎每一餐都一起用。
Over time, the markets recover their losses, memories fade, spirits revive, and the action starts up again, until, eventually, it goes too far.
一段时间之后，市场开始复苏，记忆褪色，精力复振，那些行为又开始了，知道最终走的太远。
I'm having a really, really hard time not putting everything off until the last minute before their due.
我试图说服自己不要把事情推到最后一秒才去做，我很痛苦。
Until that time, financial programmers have to keep an eye open for changes in banks' download offerings and adjust their programming to suit.
在那之前，财务程序员必须要随时关注银行所提供的下载文件的变化并相应调整编程。
Most economists expect them to fall by a further 5-10 percentage points, to their long-term trend line at roughly 40% below their peak, and not to reach bottom until some time in 2010.
许多经济学家预计房价将进一步下滑5 - 10个百分点，趋近于最高点下40%的长期趋势线，而直到2010年某时之后才会探底企稳。
Snakes lost their legs by growing them more slowly or for a shorter period of time until the legs eventually disappeared.
蛇的腿因为生长缓慢，或者某段时期生长缓慢，渐渐的，它的腿就消失了。
This is so the townspeople will have time to go out and hold their horses until you get through town.
这样做是为了让镇民有时间到外面按著他们的马直到你通过该镇。
At closing time I'd lock the door, and the children and I would wait in the warm shop until their bus finally arrived.
到关门的时候，我会锁上门，孩子们和我会在温暖的店里等候，直到他们的车最终到来。
Teen brains are only about 80% developed and don't fully mature until their mid-20s, the researchers say; they add that each day, more than 4,300 teens try illegal drugs for the first time.
研究者说，青少年的脑部只有大约80%已发育，到他们20岁中期才完全发育成熟；他们还说每天有超过4300个青少年首次尝试非法药物。
Teen brains are only about 80% developed and don't fully mature until their mid-20s, the researchers say; they add that each day, more than 4,300 teens try illegal drugs for the first time.
研究者说，青少年的脑部只有大约80%已发育，到他们20岁中期才完全发育成熟；他们还说每天有超过4300个青少年首次尝试非法药物。
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