一般说来，区别效率和绝对的时间投入很重要。

As a general rule, it's important to differentiate between effectiveness and absolute time commitments.

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他们发现，一般人在刷牙、梳头等个人活动中最常走神，约有65%的时间在走神。

They found that the average person's mind wandered most frequently about 65% of the time during personal activities, such as brushing their teeth and combing their hair.

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员工35%的时间花费在重复劳动上，大约是服务业的一般水平。

35% of staff time was being spent on repeating work, about the average for a service industry.

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It takes ordinarily it takes for 5 years in the peace time conditions to set up any kind of army.

在和平时期，一般要5年时间才能建立一个军队。

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I would have like a week in advance, so I have plenty of time.

我一般会提前一周完成计划，所以我有大量的时间。

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So first I'm gonna say something about identity across time or indeed initially identity across space with some familiar humdrum material objects.

所以我首先要,用一些大家熟悉的一般实物,谈谈贯穿时间,和贯穿空间中的人格。

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