I'll come straight to the point —your work isn't good enough.

我开门见山地说吧—你的工作做得不够好。

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There's no point in duplicating work already done.

重复别人已经做过的工作毫无意义。

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At any given point, I should have deep work scheduled for roughly the next month.

在任何时候，我都应该安排好接下来一个月左右的深度工作。

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What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?

要是我就要死了，这所有的学习，努力，自我克制还都有什么意义“,-这是个好问题--要是我明天就死了呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Grid architectures are designed to work around single-point failures, but in the 1989 event there were 15 major failures in a few seconds across the regional grid, and that was more than the system could cope with.

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What we need is for the true scientists to come out and be allowed to work on these zero-point energies that will solve this scarcity of energy problem once and for all.

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Another common type of massage, so-called deep tissue, tends to be more targeted to problem muscles and includes techniques such as acupressure, trigger-point work (which focuses on little knots of muscle) and "deep transverse friction" where the therapist moves back and forth over muscle fibers to break up scar tissue.

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