I examined myself bitterly, and then found that except the time spend on job and unavoidable social activities; most of my time has been wasted.

我痛自反省，我发现，除了职务上的必须及人情上所不能免的活动外，我的时间大部分都浪费了。

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My new job left good impressions on me in many aspects except that the working timetable was full of traveling on jets.

我的新工作在多方面都给了我很好的印象，除了一点：乘飞机旅行挤满了我的工作时间表。

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There was nothing they could do about it except get on with the job. It's all very different nowadays.

他们除了工作就百无聊赖，但是今天就大不相同了。

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What President Obama is proposing is to maintain the failed policies of his first term, which produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, except to add this panoply of tax rate increases on the very job creators, investors and successful small businesses the economy most needs to create jobs and the long overdue real recovery.

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But there has been little visible impact so far on its pay policy, except that Sir Peter Job is stepping down as chairman of the group's remuneration committee on October 1st (he will remain a member).

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Unwilling to discuss the failure of the stimulus and health-care reform bills, which he sold as job creation measures, the president seemed unable to offer any news ideas except raising taxes on higher-income earners.

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