I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paperwork.

我要参加的会议太多了，而且我似乎把很多时间都花在了不必要的文书工作上。

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I'm expected to attend too many meetings and I seem to be spending a lot of my time doing unnecessary paper work.

我要参加的会议太多了，而且我似乎把很多时间都花在了不必要的文书工作上。

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They are a vital part of an array of data that we use to assess if we're doing well or doing badly, and that in turn shapes government policies and corporate budgets and personal spending decisions.

它们是一系列数据的重要组成部分，我们用这些数据来评估自己的表现是好是坏，进而影响政府政策、企业预算和个人支出决定。

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"I am here to protest what the government is doing to us, taking our freedoms away, spending way too much money, ramming these things down the throat of the people without their consent."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

They're spending money on concrete, and bricks, and machinery, and they could be doing that wisely or unwisely and that's beyond finance to evaluate.

他们花钱买混凝土,砖块和机器,这个决策可能明智也可能不明智,但这不是金融学的讨论范畴

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Or perhaps Chinese on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and Thai on Saturdays and Sundays and spending two hours in the afternoon doing math and three hours in the morning doing philosophy.

或周一三五吃中餐,周六日吃泰国菜,下午花两小时研究数学,上午三小时思考哲学，统统没有用。

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In the latest study, the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health asked 189 young men who were students at a university in New York to record how many hours they had been spending doing physical activity and watching TV in a typical week.

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Most prefer not to cut spending because doing so would anger someone somewhere.

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Also, a consumption tax of 15 percent would not be moderate, nor, very likely, would it do anything but fuel greater spending while doing nothing to reduce debt.

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