Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.

浮法玻璃按平方米出售，在最后阶段，电脑将客户的要求转化为旨在减少浪费的切割模式。

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Doing multiple tasks at once will not only minimise your workload, but will also keep your senses completely consumed to be able to waste any time at all.

把各项任务混着做不仅可以将你的工作量减到最小，还能使你完全没有精力去浪费时间。

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The EU's global catch of sharks ranks second only to Indonesia, yet the European Commission has committed itself - under the EU Action Plan for the Conservation and Management of Sharks - to adopt the necessary measures to conserve shark species and to minimise waste and discards from shark catches.

BBC: MEPs vote to close 'shark finning' loopholes

To put it another way, is it right that those who already feel guilty about their environmental impact and endeavour to minimise their waste have to stand by and watch their neighbours drive to Tesco in their 4x4 and fly off to Prague on long weekends - thus undermining all the their good work?

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