A simple tactic: pick one half-hour block each day in which to tackle all of the small, non-academic tasks that need to get done. Right before or after dinner is a good time.

提供一条简单的策略，每天抽一个半小时时间用来处理这类非学科类但必须完成的小任务，而晚饭前后是个好时机。

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During rush hour, the traffic jams block the roads for half an hour.

在繁忙时间，路上的交通会阻塞半小时。

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So, we're using one kite in 15 mile per hour winds to lift up a three and half ton block, " said Caltech student Emilio Castano."

科技大学生艾米利奥-加斯塔诺说：“我们要用一只风筝在风速为每小时15英里的情况下抬起3吨半重的石块。”

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Well partly this is just for fun-- this is what computer people sometimes do, intentionally or unintentionally but as also will see a really nice way to culminate the semester and frankly carve out a 10 hour block where you can bite off your final project's implementation surrounded by friends and the course's staff.

一部分只是因为好玩-,这是懂电脑的人有时会这么做，不管有没有意义,还有一部分原因是因为,以这种方式达到学期的高潮,并在朋友和这门课程教师的关注下,抽出10小时的时间完成最终的项目安装,是一件多么美妙的事啊。

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He's evacuated his New Orleans office for now, setting up shop in a generic office block an hour south.

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Or maybe we should just start running a four-hour block of commercials with little snippets of football in between.

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