When you know the time in their hands always be only so much, does not allow room for any half-hearted, doomed not escape it.

当你知道自己手中的时间永远只有那么多，容不得有任何敷衍的余地，注定无法逃脱。

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Xiao Ming is always half-hearted when doing his work.

小明做事不太专心，总是三心二意的。

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The welcome was surprisingly warm and the boos, when they eventually came, half-hearted and pantomime.

不过球迷的欢迎令人惊讶地温暖，而嘘声最终到来时只是半心半意和像默剧一般的。

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But it was the briefest of honeymoons for Cook, lasting only until the last ball of the eighth over, when he played a half-hearted force off the back foot to a ball well wide of off-stump - and to the delight of the bowler Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey dived expertly in the gully to take a fine one-handed catch.

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