Mike, put that thing away, dinner is on me tonight.

迈克，快把钱包收起来，今晚这顿我请。

youdao

For example, you spend all your life pining away for your partner hundreds or thousands of miles away when the thing that needs doing - your job, your degree, your life - is put on hold.

比如说，你把所有的精力花在为你那几百或者几千英里外的另一半而憔悴消瘦，这种时候，你正把需要做的工作，你需要完成的学业甚至你自己的生活搁置一边。

youdao

But the second thing I'd like to be clear on is that people can get a lot of value from having their autonomy taken away, and from technologies that put constraints on their behavior.

但我要澄清的第二条正是：人们可以从自主性的缺失，以及限制人们行为的技术中获取大量价值。

youdao

Too many people still believe, as one Arkansas economist put it, that the best thing that could happen to the Delta would be if everyone just moved away and left it.

ECONOMIST: The Delta region