In the end, the British and other governments spent hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out troubled financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

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So instead of having 20% of people's time spent on their own projects, I make people hang out with each other.

我让大家都待在一块儿,而不是将那20%的时间，用在自己的工作上。

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"But they are actually very small when you look at the numbers that were spent bailing out the banks during this economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.

他花费了很多的时间和精力来研究,人们想要在下个星期买进什么。

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Data gathered from census surveys mailed to American households and reported by Census workers sent out to find those who do not respond also helps decide where billions of federal dollars get spent on new schools, highways and health care.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

That's why I spent a couple of minutes trying to spell it out.

否则我也不会花这些时间去阐述它

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As far as I know, he doesn't publish he's not in the newspapers, but he's gotten the ear of the Treasury Secretary They spent many weekends together figuring out what should be done about the system and they wrote up a proposal.

据我所知，他从没出过书,也没有上过新闻，但他却有当财政部长的潜质,他花了数周的时间来搞清楚,对于现在的美国金融体系,该怎么改革然后书写成书。

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