I don't want to waste time on trivialities.

我不想把时间浪费在一些琐碎小事上。

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She doesn't want to waste food.

她不想浪费食物。

youdao

Certainly, you don't want to waste your precious hours on following the developments in a disorderly fashion and miss important deadlines, confuse interview times, or forget to follow up as a result.

当然，你也不想浪费宝贵时间去随波逐流，从而错过重要的截止日期、弄错面试时间，或者忘记跟进重要事情的结果。

youdao

I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

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