It can take months, or even years, for a book to go from an idea to a finished product.

一本书从构思到完成可能需要几个月、甚至几年的时间。

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While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

当你需要运用二者以达到某一既定结果的时候，无论我们如何希望它们能并行不悖地工作，它们都无法如我们所愿。

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Time is not a work in process, but a finished creation.

时间不是一项正在进行的工作，而是一个完成了的创造物。

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Ila Lewis and other jewelry makers say combining the materials into a finished piece generally takes less time than the design process.

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But I enjoyed it when I finished it. And I was offered a scholarship to do some graduate work because I've done well at it. And it just got went on from there.

但是当我修完了哲学课，我觉得我很享受学习的过程,学校授予了我奖学金来做硕士的研究,因为我在哲学方面做得很好，从那时起，我走上了哲学的道路。

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I'll go into the library after we're finished this, but it's just... to give my life a bit of diversities,

我们谈话结束后我还是会回到图书馆去，但是现在……让我的生活更加多样化一点吧，

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In terms of hardware, MiiPC looks and feels very much like a finished product.

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Nearby, Huntsman works with Shanghai Chloro-Alkali Chemical to turn the crude MDI into a finished prepolymer.

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However unlike poems printed on paper, there is no fixed, library version of a finished work.

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