If you've ever been using some program, you did something completely innocuous, pull something down from a menu, click a button, you didn't do anything wrong and yet all of a sudden the thing just starts hanging there or you get a little spinning beach ball or the hour glass or whatever it is.

如果你之前在用一些程序，做一些无伤大雅的事情，拉下一个菜单，点击一个按钮，你没有做任何错误的事情,突然间有东西开始一直运行,或者一个沙滩上的小球旋转,或滴漏或是别的什么。

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You can go have a barbecue, play volleyball for the day, tan, have fun on the beach.

你可以去烧烤，打排球，晒太阳，在沙滩上玩耍。

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And I really don't want to just lay on the beach while everybody's having fun.

大家都会玩得很开心，我可不想到时一个人躺在沙滩上。

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you sit on the beach and you sip something, you do some business

你就坐在沙滩上，喝点东西，然后做点生意，

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