Rather than being tired, bad-tempered under-achievers , they are an energetic, outgoing and optimistic group who can happily and healthily get by on just four or five hours of shut-eye a night.

虽然睡眠时间短，但他们精力充沛、外向活泼、乐观向上，而不是疲惫而且脾气坏的“后进生”。 他们每晚只睡四到五个小时，却过得快乐健康。

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Tevez appeared to have a slight limp when he was replaced but Mancini said he was tired rather than injured.

特维斯被换下时一瘸一拐，曼奇尼称这是疲惫的表现而不是伤病。

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Many of us get very tired of this, and we'd rather have weekends than stay in the office.

我们很多人都不喜欢这样，我们情愿要周末也不想留在办公室加班。

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That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.

ECONOMIST: Energy and the environment

Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new.

WHITEHOUSE: The 2010 State of the Union Address

He would, they said, have been better off making sure that the funding Wales gets from Europe is spent more effectively, "creating a dynamic trading relationship with our EU partners ... rather than going to Brussels full of empty words and tired rhetoric about Europe".

BBC: Flexing his muscles in Brussels