If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

如果该学区发现家庭作业对于孩子的学业是不重要的，它就应该减少或者免除家庭作业，而不是让它们几乎一文不值。

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Only apply for positions you are qualified for, and make each application count, personalizing each cover letter, and updating and editing your resume.

只申请你能胜任的职位，让每一份申请都有价值，让每一封求职信个性化，还要对简历进行更新和编辑。

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Retail stores usually count on the Christmas season to make up to half of their annual profits.

零售商店通常指望圣诞节期间来赚取一半的年利润。

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Thus,he says,it is not possible to ascertain who is responsible for the shelling or to make a definitive casualty count.

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So we have a total of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 valence electrons, so I'll make sure I count to 10 as we fill up our molecular orbitals here.

我们一共有2，4，6，8，10个价电子，所以我一边填一边要确认,我数到10。

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And also I wanted to mention in terms of checking your Lewis structures, regardless of what they are, you should always go back and I had 10, and then count 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, because you always need to make sure you have the same number of valence electrons that you calculated in your actual structure.

我还想提一点关于检查,你的路易斯结构的建议，不管它们是什么，你总是应该回去检查一下,我有十个，然后数一数，二，四，六，八，十个，因为你总是需要确保实际价电子的数量,与你在结构中算出的数量相等。

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My point is not to count jobs, but to make jobs count.

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Rather than count jobs, we should make jobs count.

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Hint: 500 words is not a lot of space, so make them count.

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