Someone may think we are buying time, but our newspapers are alive, and growing.

有人可能会认为我们是在争取时间，但我们的报纸是有生命力的，它在成长。

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After blowing past my deadline to turn in all the files to my employer, I'd been ducking calls from Sully's office, buying time to finish up.

在超出把所有文件上交给我的雇主的最后期限后，我就一直在回避来自苏利办公室的电话，拖延时间来完成编辑。

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Even those who support the fund admit that it is, at best, a temporary solution, buying time so SIVs can find other sources of finance or wind down gracefully.

即便是该基金的支持者也承认，这最多也只是临时解决方案，为SIV争取一点时间，这样他们能够找到其他资金来源或体面地倒下。

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"The talk issue is not going to be anything serious, other than buying time for both the Iranian regime and the Iranian opposition, because as far as the Iranian regime is concerned, no steps are being taken in the direction of bridging the gaps with the opposition anymore,".

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And beginning next time, we're going to take up questions of the limits of consent in the buying and selling of goods.

下节课开始，我们将解答,买卖商品中，同意的限制问题。

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If you spend a lot of time shopping and buying stuff,

如果你花很多时间逛街购物买东西，

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And TNS says about half of those buying time purchase more than one 30-second spot.

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I'm not against buying time, but it depends on how you use the time.

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At the same time the costs of buying time with loans have become painfully clear.

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