Why should we teachers waste time on such tedious work?

我们这些老师为什么要把时间浪费在这么乏味的工作上呢？

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Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste.

对于其它作物，相似的改进把人们从艰难又枯燥的工作中解放出来，可以做更多创造性的工作，同时机器收割庄稼的效率更高，浪费更少。

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Instead of flushing, they work like a vacuum cleaner sucking away the astronaut's waste.

不是冲洗，而是像真空吸尘器一样吸走宇航员的排泄物。

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In addition,news agencies provide updates and companies share product information through Twitter Some critics say Twitter is a waste of time that takes people's attention away from their work.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

You can take heat energy and convert it to work energy and vice versa, and it doesn't say anything about that you have to waste heat if you're going to transform heat into work.

你可以把热能便成功,也可以反过来,但它对于如果你要把热变成功,就必须浪费热量这件事只字未提,它只是说这是能量。

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The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

As for taxes, those who oddly want the feds to collect even more revenues to waste, work legalization will achieve just that.

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There are also plans for waste crews to work on Saturday.

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