Now whenever I hear of a friend who's lost a loved one, I no longer call with the polite offer, "If there's anything I can do…" Instead I try to think of one specific task that suits that man's need, like taking the dog to the boarding kennel, or house sitting during the funeral.

现在，每当我听到朋友失去亲人，我不再打电话礼貌地提出“如果有什么我能做的……”相反，我试图想出一个特定的适合那人需要的任务，如带狗去寄宿养犬处，或在葬礼时看房子。

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The application is now reduced to a simple call to a stored procedure and the task of outputting the result to the browser.

应用程序代码现在简化为对存储过程和将结果输出到浏览器的任务的简单调用。

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You can think of a long-running process as a workflow process; it may wait for an external event to happen, or call upon one or more people to perform a task.

您可以将长时间运行的流程视为工作流流程；它可能会等待外部事件发生，或呼叫一个或多个人员执行任务。

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The organizations that report on the industry does not call them to task and cast doubt on their claims or more correctly the claims of others with no facts.

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We will call our competition to task.

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His wife immediately put in a call to the Collier County Task Force Initiative, with whom she had worked in the past to enforce speed limits in her subdivision and to establish random sobriety tests at crucial intersections.

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