All of us have spent money and time on something—maybe a relationship, or a business, or a job—and sometimes, even if we know there's no hope that things will change, we still continue with it.

我们所有人都在某些事情上花费了金钱和时间——也许是一段关系、一笔生意，也许是一份工作——有时，即使我们知道事情没有希望改变，我们还是会继续做下去。

youdao

As with all dead things, holding onto it won't keep it alive or change the fact that it's useful time has come and gone.

死了的东西，坚持下去不会让它复活，或者改变它有用的时间已经来了并且过去了的事实。

youdao

We've been doing things a specific way for a long time, and that's hard to abandon, even for more efficiency, given the number of processes that would need to change along with it.

我们长期来都以精确的方式做事情，因为很多的程序也要随之一起改变，所以从效率的角度，我们也很难放弃。

youdao

And I really think that in a moment like this with such incredible events unfolding, 24 hours is a pretty short time period to expect things to change.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

John Sills, Ipsa policy director, said that while national newspapers' interest appeared to have dropped in MPs' expenses, with the local press "the smallest things can be followed up" - but said that might change as time went on.

BBC: MPs 'are not customers' of expenses body