Now I think back, it seems wasteful, but I don't regret it.

现在回想起当时，这一切好像是浪费时间，但我不后悔。

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Even if it seems wasteful to buy clothes when you are planning on changing your body size, doing so will reinforce the idea that you are worthwhile at any size or shape.

即使由于你正在计划改变自己的身材而使得在此时买衣服成为一种浪费，但这样做却可以增强这样一种意识，即自己能够适合任何款式和码子。

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It also seems wasteful to develop a model once in a charting program and then redevelop it later as code.

使用流程图先来开发一个模型，然后再把这个模型重新开发为代码，这也是一种浪费。

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It seems wasteful to make such a fire when cooking for one or two.

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As a result, the insurgency can be expected to continue their struggle, no matter how desperate or wasteful it currently seems in Western eyes.

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Although the Mark Center was conceived as part of an efficiency initiative years ago, today it seems more like a monument to how over-manned and wasteful the U.S. defense establishment has become.

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