To phone it in or run out the clock, regardless of how alone and impotent you might feel in your work, is to commit an especially tragic — for being so preventable — brand of public sin.

无论你感到工作多寂寞多没有前途，一旦你这样做，就是让你的可怜品牌背负了公共的罪责。

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So the surveying of tunnel contour is very impotent and meaning to the construction of tunnel.

隧道断面测量在隧道施工中是非常必要的，对隧道施工具有指导意义。

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So he curses existence, curses God at having made him so impotent that he can't change the fact that two plus two equals four.

所以他诅咒生存，诅咒上帝让他如此无能,无能到无法改变二加二等于四的事实。

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