People are often hesitant to terminate a project when they've already invested time or resources into it, even if it might make logical sense to do so.

当人们已经在项目上投入了时间或资源时，他们常常会犹豫是否要终止项目，即使这样做是合乎逻辑的。

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New companies don’t have the time or resources to stand still.

新企业并没有时间和资源安定下来。

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Interns aren't supposed to be a drain on time, energy or resources.

因为实习生不应该成为雇主在时间、精力或者资源上的负担。

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"There is going to be a need for resources and they are going to move where they think or at least perceive there are more resources available to them."

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Life for Hobbes is competition or struggle not just over scarce resources, although that might be part of the struggle, but for honors, for anything else that a person might value or esteem.

对霍布斯来说，生活是一次竞争或斗争,不是争夺稀缺的资源,虽然这也可能是斗争的一部分，而是为荣誉，为一个人的,价值和自尊而战。

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"We believe strongly that creativity is evenly distributed around the world,and that people Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein are born every day in Africa and Asia and Latin America, but they often do not have access to the same kind of tools or resources that inventors and innovators in the industrialized world do,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Private equity often focuses on situations where public investors lack the ability or resources to address.

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Past results in similar projects or specific skills or resources you possess are the most compelling reasons.

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Spending money, time or resources on anyone other than ourselves or our own has become a bad thing.

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