Davis Guggenheim's amazing and popular movie "Waiting for Superman" made a powerful argument against the status quo.

戴维斯·古根海姆的广受欢迎的奇异的电影“等待超人”为反对现在的状态提供了强有力的证据。

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Or have you kept a client waiting on the phone for several minutes while you've searched for a status report?

或者是为了找到现状报告不得不让客户在电话另一端的客户等上好几分钟。

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The kernel takes care of moving the process to sleeping state, waiting for the socket to be ready for writing, reading the TCP status code, and so on.

内核负责将进程转移到睡眠状态、等待套接字做好写入的准备、读取 TCP 状态代码，等等。

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To get so-called "top of the waiting list" status you have to be a war pensioner.

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In its report on the wider status of waiting lists, Audit Scotland concluded that in a small number of cases patients had been inappropriately marked as unavailable for treatment, but it could not say whether these were deliberate.

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Some arriving international passengers see it as a sign of status when an attendant is waiting to greet and guide, even if it's a wheelchair attendant.

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