First, a free lunch doesn't necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you'll pay for it later -it could just mean someone else is picking up the TAB.

首先，免费午餐并不必然意味着那些食物可以白白送掉，或你稍后必须为其付费——它只是表明，其他人会替你付账。

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There’s nothing wrong with that; but given that rising population, Texas needs to create jobs more rapidly than the rest of the country just to keep up with a growing work force.

这没什么可说的，但是既然人口在不断增长，为了安置更多的劳动力，德州就要比全国其它地区更快地创造就业岗位。

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However, just about a year ago, it became clear that the company had given up on this dream when it announced that it would no longer accept direct consumer uploads to its service.

然而在一年前，当这家公司宣布不再接受用户上传的时候，他们就显然是放弃了自己的理想。

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It's the old gray but dark philosophy that you should just look at value But, one of the things is when people have given up on a company--that's the perfect time.

就是那个陈旧黑暗的哲理,你应该只注重价值,但是，还有一种情况当人们都抛售了,某个公司的股票--那就是个极佳的时机。

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There have been plenty of times when he has lost his way, or failed to find what he was looking for, or just given up because the trek was too long.

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"Just being in the classroom and just knowing that I'd been given up on sometimes, that I'm not receiving the work, it was heartbreaking, " he says.

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