In this case, it is a complete waste of time to hold a contest.

在这种情况下，它是一个完整的浪费时间，举行一次竞赛。

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Could you hold a contest and get hundreds of lawyers to write your will, and then only pick and reward one?

你能够办一场竞赛找来数百位律师写你的遗嘱，然后只选一个付钱吗？

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Tom: I just heard that our school will hold a singing contest in 5 days.

汤姆：我刚听说咱们学校5天后要举行一个歌唱比赛。

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It could hold a contest for the best song to commemorate the forgotten of the financial crisis.

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It is the next big task for Democratic candidates and the first state to hold a contest in the West.

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At a slipping cable channel, two rancidly intelligent executives (Rob Reiner and Ellen DeGeneres) hold a contest, choose an appealing but ordinary guy one Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), a video-store clerk in San Francisco and put him on the air, live, twenty-four hours a day.

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