Indeed, I often hear from developers who claim that what they wrote just last year or the year before is worthless and should be thrown away.

事实上，我常常听到开发人员抱怨说，他们不得不扔掉去年或者上半年编写的一文不值的东西。

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The best code of ethics in the world is worthless if it's just filed away and never used.

世界上最好的道德规范仅仅存档，却从不使用，那才是无价值的。

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It is not enough just to say relationships are important; we must prove it by investing time in them. Words alone are worthless.

单单口头上说“关系很重要”并不足够，还必须花时间在关系上来证明：只有言语是没有用的。

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We never sell the wine before its time, something like that. On television, in different acting roles, he would take any worthless role in somebody's movie just because there was such a large fee, and he will pour that into his movies.

之前人们对这种酒闻所未闻，在电视上，在饰演,不同的角色时，他在一些电影中做不起眼的角色,因为这可以,赚到一大笔钱，然后可以投到自己的电影中。

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Although the last two suggestions seem outlandish, they are no more outlandish than the plan to get the IRS, and the Courts, to accept that the ownership of such a major work by a renowned artist is worthless just because you cannot sell it.

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Rockefeller made many such overpriced acquisitions on his way to world dominance in oil, and a veritable cottage industry emerged to take advantage of his world-conquering impatience: people would set up obviously worthless refineries just to get bought up by Rockefeller.

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It seemed inconceivable at that time that the print book business with its half-millennium history would become worthless in just a few years time, so the predictions by industry leaders were that the venerable print book business would coexist happily with the augmentation of e-books that would allow people to travel easily with their favorite book.

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