经验证明，大部分时间都是被一分钟一分钟地而不是一小时一小时的浪费掉的。一只低部有个洞的桶和一只被故意踢翻的桶同样会流空。

Experience proves that most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes, a bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

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这些情绪，往往会在短短一天的时间里，循环往复地出现。一分钟前还誓言要结束这段婚姻，可能一分钟以后又极力地想要挽回。这个时候，循序渐进就显得尤为重要了。

You may cycle through all of these emotions many times in a single day, one minute vowing to end the marriage and the next wanting desperately to save it.

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And we'll talk in more detail about the ways in which it doesn't have value in a minute.

我们会更详细地讨论那些,一分钟都不值得花的方式。

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And then after a few minutes or maybe an hour, you hopefully have at least one dancing cookie.

几分钟或者可能一小时过去后，你颇有希望地拥有至少一个会跳舞的饼干人。

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And if you haven't yourself dived into your own problem set zero, whose PDFs are available online, realize that if something like this, given that it's a minute or so long, kind of looks you know, despite the cutesiness of it, kind of overwhelming in that you don't really know where to begin, how could you possibly sketch out this whole story line.

如果你还没有真正沉下心来,看习题集0，网上可以提供这些PDF文件，好好地感受一下像这样的东西，假定只有一分钟左右这么长,先不管它外表看起来是否可爱,也不管它让人无从下手的压迫感,你怎样才能勾勒出,整个故事最初的框架呢？

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