Instead of spending time watching useless television programs or horrible movies, I could have been out meeting people, traveling or reading life-changing books.

与其花时间在看那些没用的电视节目和恐怖电影上，我本该出去约会，旅游或者读几本能影响我一生的好书的。

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They gave up reading academic finance journals altogether as useless and well behind what they were doing.

他们完全不读金融方面的学术杂志，认为这些对他们所做的工作是毫无帮助。

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Reading is easy, to think is difficult, but the lack of a, is all useless.

读书是易事，思索是难事，但两者缺一，便全无用处。——富兰克林。

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"If Bill de Blasio spent more time reading The Wall Street Journal and less time writing us useless letters, he would know that the City is not even considering doing the things he urges us not to do, " mayoral spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an email.

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