他花费了很多夜晚和周末来接手机，在过去9年里参加了无数电话会议，四处“救火”，而他在使用Informix的那些日子里从来没有这样过。

He has spent many nights and weekends answering his cell phone and participating in numerous conference calls over the past nine years, fighting fires that he never fought during his Informix days.

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我去她那里会花费一个周末去清理他的壁橱。

I have yet to go visit her to spend a weekend cleaning her closet.

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容易的事情象从车中把食物取出带进房中，还有些事情要花费时间和精力的——象在周末做饭，或者给整个房子打扫卫生。

And not something easy like carrying the groceries in from the car, but something that requires some time and effort — like cooking all the meals over a weekend, or cleaning the entire house.

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I don't want to spend the whole weekend implementing just a little pop up calendar and frankly it probably would take at least that long to get something that's as interactive and dynamic as something like this that works across all browsers and so forth.

我并不想花费整个周末的时间来实现,这样一个小的弹出式日历，而且,可能至少还要花那么多时间，从而使它,能够在所有浏览器上都能有良好的交互性并且是,动态的，等等。

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