I also have to be careful to distinguish between work that must be done (like taxes) and things that seem required, but really aren't.

同时我也非常小心地去分辨哪些工作是必需的(如缴税)，哪些是貌似必须却不必去做的。

youdao

I was thinking, “I only live once. Some things are better done when you feel like doing them.”

时，我却在想：“我只活一次，有些事最好在还有心情时抓紧时间做完。”

youdao

Oh, I had done the normal "motherly" things, like making sure my daughter got to ballet and tap and gym lessons.

没错，我做了一个普通妈妈该做的所有事，像送孩子去学芭蕾舞，钢琴和体操。

youdao

And then I could do things like again, say, okay having done, that let me just run it here, run that, so I've now got polar point 1, and polar point 2.

然后给它们赋值半径和角度，然后我可以进行刚才的操作，也就是说，对刚才的笛卡尔坐标进行的操作，让我们来运行下它吧，运行下，现在我有一个极坐标点。

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When I say manufacturing, you understand everything is done by hand, but you see things like shops that contain a number of slaves working for a master.

你应明白,我所说的制造业是指手工业,但也包括,若干奴隶为主人工作的作坊

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Because they already knew me, because I have taken the risks and done things like Have I Got News For You, Fit Club, other things of that sort.

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And I don't know, just like most artists, I think all the things that any of us have done--Jerry and his directing career, the rest of us doing musical things--it's all permutations on a theme.

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They've all done things - things that people, I think, people don't like.

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