政府把事情弄得一团糟，还浪费了一笔钱。

The government made a total hash of things and squandered a small fortune.

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在这三年中，他们还浪费了教学资源。

During the three years, they also waste the teaching resources.

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这不仅减慢了速度并使用户感到沮丧，而且还浪费带宽和资源。

Not only is this slow and frustrating for the user, but it is also a waste of bandwidth and resources.

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Okay. I'm going to start even though it's still in flux here 'cause I don't want to lose my time.

好的，我又要开始讲了,尽管大家还没坐定,但是我不想浪费时间。

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I stress it in particular because I know you're all going to get into this stage; you've got a problem set due in a couple of hours, you're still writing the code, you don't want to waste time, and I'm going to use quotes on "waste time", doing those extra things to do the defensive programming, you just want to get the darn thing done.

我特别强调了这一点,因为我知道你们都会慢慢成为程序员;,你在写代码过程中造成了一系列的错误，你还在写代码，你不想浪费时间，我想把“浪费时间“用引号圈起来，浪费时间来做因为防卫性程序设计，而带来的这些额外的事情,你只想赶紧把程序写完，这不是一个好习惯，因为当你做完回头。

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And if that's the case, why in the world would--can we justify all that shipping, all the excess energy to taste, to ship water in from France, rather then just buying something local or drinking water out of the tap?

既然如此,为什么还会有世界范围的进出口呢,为什么还要浪费能源,从法国进口呢,而不是买当地的品牌,或是直接喝水龙头里的水呢

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