Many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

许多人用“耐旱”这个词来形容这种植物，但它们实际上从未停止消耗水的需求，因此法兰特更喜欢称它们为抗旱植物。

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Stop consuming the headline news every day. – Most news has no long term value.

停止在每天的报纸头条中浪费时间——大部分新闻都没有长期价值。

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Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.

BBC: Slipping towards the fiscal slope

Back in 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that using continuing resolutions to deal with the budget resulted in "inefficient, start-and-stop management" through short-term contacts.

CNN: Stopgap budgeting cripples government

Other shorter term stop-gap measures currently being debated just won't help.

NPR: The Nation: Unemployment's Desperate Case