"I wish I could get something to do," she said.

“但愿我能找到工作，”她说。

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"If I could only get something to do," she said.

“要是我能找个什么事做就好了，”她说。

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Don't wander about the room like that. Get something to do.

不要在房间里那样闲逛，找点事情做。

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This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.

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Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

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All right? If you run it, you have a sense of the upper bound, about how much time it's going to take to do this computation, so you're not going to get surprised by something showing up.

第一，这样做意味着没有意外了对不对？,你去运行程序,你已经大致知道运行时间的上限了，因此发生任何事情,你都不会吃惊了。

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I've shown repeatedly my willingness to work overtime to try to get them to do something to deal with this high unemployment rate.

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Have I tried to put an organization together that could raise funds, give dinners, get celebrities to sing and dance to get medicine, to do something to try and help these people that are dying, and dying this horrible death?

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And so I may be a little grayer than I was the last time I was on Broadway. (Laughter.) Going to need to get Margo to send me something to do something -- do something about that.

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