And,that is what our leadership should be saying, 'Don't you have better things to do,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

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You'd better care about military things more than you do.

多花点时间在军政大事上,不要成天四处游荡

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If things do not get better soon, he thinks the riots will start again.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

I have better things to do with my time."

我的时间用在别的更值得的地方“

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Me making it into AFL will make them, will give them more opportunities and give them confidence to sort of go out there and do their own things to better themselves."

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

What the philosopher tries to do, then, so as to better focus on these ideal things, is to disregard the body, put it aside, separate his mind as much as possible from it.

所以 哲学家们,为了全神贯注于这些理想事物,就要忽略肉体,撇开肉体,尽可能地分离精神和肉体

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"There was a recent story about wanting to, on Valentine's Day, raid people having romantic candlelit dinners, Muslim couples having romantic candlelit,I mean, what business of it is theirs and really don't they have better things to do?

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

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