Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

把时间看作是一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你功利性地对待它，认为任何特定的时刻都应该充分利用起来以使其朝着某一既定目标迈进。

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If you are completely present, the external forces are no longer a problem, because there is only you and that external force, in this moment, and not a million other things you need to worry about.

如果你是完全专注于眼前的事情，那么外部因素将不再是问题。因为在此刻，唯有你和那个外部因素，没有成千上万的其它事情需要你担忧的。

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I figured what I said either made no sense whatsoever, or perhaps got him thinking about the world in a different way – if only for a moment.

我想无论我说的话有没有意义，至少让他从不同的角度对这个世界进行了思考--哪怕只有一小会。

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So we're only looking at a snapshot of that very first moment in time.

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Remember, language exists synchronically: it only exists in a moment, in a moment of simultaneity.

注意，语言存在于同一时间中：,它只存在于一个个时间截面上。

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In another example, you could explain what you're doing not only at a particular moment,

在下面一个例子中，你可以解释不仅仅在一个特定时间干的事情。

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Something about the mixture of African, Caribbean and European rhythms combines to create a sound, and a moment, that can only be experienced in New Orleans, in a small club with lousy acoustics, filled with residents from the surrounding neighborhood.

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In other words, the framers did not mean to freeze America in a single historical moment by dictating that only the legal or political outcomes they expected should be seen as legitimate for all time to come.

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Then, rather than building polygons that are mostly invisible on top of each other, the engineers devised a way to render in each tile only graphic data that are actually visible at a given moment.

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