This is why there is a saying that if you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

有句俗话说，如果你想做一件事，就请一个忙碌的人去做，看来也不无道理。

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At your job, take a look at the code the senior developers are writing and ask how and why things were done a particular way.

在工作中看看高级程序员写的代码，然后问一问事情是如何以某种特别的方式完成的，为什么？

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Rather than inquiring why something is done a certain way, ask if management has ever considered doing it another way.

不要问为什么某件事情是按某个方式进行的，而应该问管理者有没有考虑过用另一个方式。

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No-one in Paris - or any other Western capital - wants parts of Mali to become like Afghanistan in the 1990s - a place where acts of terror further afield could be planned and where people would then ask why something was not done earlier.

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With a bit of prompting, some people will ask why the authorities have not done more to help, more quickly.

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If you want an explaination why that would have to be done, just ask.

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