Some fool even themselves, until some life event—a layoff, an empty nest, an inheritance that frees them to spend time as they like—jolts them into taking stock of their true natures.

有些人甚至欺骗了自己，直到生活中发生了一些事情——失业、空巢、一笔可以让他们自由支配时间的遗产——让他们开始审视自己的本性。

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At McDonald's, customers will spend on average three minutes and nine seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

在麦当劳，顾客从下单到收到食物的平均时间为3分9秒。

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The Heat sleepwalk through some games, look like world-beaters in others and seem to be biding their time until the playoffs.

季后赛到来之前，他们在一些比赛中梦游，在另一些比赛中又像是主宰，似乎在等待时机。

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Under such a program, young drivers are prohibited from nighttime driving, are limited to the number of passengers they can have in their cars at one time and will be ineligible for a full driver's license until they're 18 years old.

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They just wait, they wait for their time, they wait until you are in danger from a particular antigen.

它们时刻准备着,在等待着那一刻,等待你被某种特别的抗原威胁的时刻

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From the time they formed their republics until they were conquered by alien empires, the Greeks also rejected monarchy of any kind.

无论是在城邦共和国时期,还是在异国征服时期,希腊人一直排斥任何形式的君主政体

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They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.

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Local managers were allowed to do their own thing operationally until it was time for their companies to become chips and be traded in for something new, always in the name of increasing shareholder value.

ECONOMIST: Liberty Media

Most of all, though, the Democrats are biding their time until Mr Bush leaves the stage.

ECONOMIST: Democrats in Texas