Did he think that the money, time and strength it took to go to the Great Wall were all wasted?

他认为花钱、时间、人力前往万里长城都是白花的呢？

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Confusion because the factory management, he and several workers' forgotten 'registered income, pensions, seeing to all wasted.

因为工厂的混乱的管理，他和几个工友“被忘记”注册了收入，退休金眼看要全部泡汤。

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An old saying has it that half all advertising budgets are wasted—the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有句老话说，一半的广告预算都浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。

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opportunities wasted. All of our development work -- child survival, maternal and child health, child protection -- all of it in the most disadvantaged communities hinges on educating girls, as well as boys.

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But, they create a Central Commission of Hygiene and Sobriety which tell people-- encourage people to eat healthfully, and don't just get wasted all the time-- which is what I would have done, I'll tell you that.

但巴黎人很快成立了中央卫生委员会,旨在宣传并鼓励人们,健康饮食,告诫人们不要总是浪费时间,老实说,如果我在那里的话,早就这么做了

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He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

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It turns out all that wasted real estate and sprawl really does negatively affect a community.

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Kathy Baker and Jane Alexander play his two nurses, and they're all but wasted in minor roles.

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And woe be to he who actually develops for the platform, because he may soon find out that it all became wasted effort at the next over-caffeinated random user interface change.

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