The purpose of the passage is to ask people to stop wasting food.

这篇文章的目的是要求人们停止浪费食物。

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Some things simply cannot be altered and resilient people accept this, not wasting energy on trying to do the impossible.

有些东西根本无法改变，有韧性的人能接受这一点，不会浪费精力来做不可能的事。

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And if it's your job to help people, how much of other people's time are you wasting if you can't find the information you need when you need it?

倘若你的工作是帮助别人的话，要是你需要的信息总是找不到，会浪费别人多少时间啊。

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He was not against the church, but he thought that people were wasting time being monks, and other people were all over the place in their Russian Orthodox equivalent.

他并不反对东正教,但他认为人们当僧侣,简直就是浪费时间,所有的人在东正教堂里都是地位平等的

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But this is less painful than wasting the time of people you are speaking to because you were boring or hard to follow.

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But there I was, wasting time, asking other people to help me choose my favorite color.

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So your business is losing out on talented people (and wasting time with untalented ones) based on their looks.

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