You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, it's an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.

没人愿意白废一次旷日危机，因为那可是一次让你行往日所不能的机遇啊。

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Legalizing the world's oldest profession probably wasn't what Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, meant when he said that we should never allow a crisis to go to waste.

当白宫办公厅主任Rahm Emanuel说我们决不能让危机白白浪费，他指的可能不是让世界上最古老的行当合法化。

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So much of his enormous effort and talent will go to waste if we are forced to drop one hour of the film.

如果我们被迫删减一小时的电影，就会浪费掉他的非凡努力和才华。

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Using it could make the most sense in areas where farmers grow lots of rice and the hulls might just go to waste.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The ones who would conserve energy, that is they were sedentary when possible, other then when they had to go get food would again not waste their calories but would save them and contribute to the gene pool.

那些保存能量的人,那些能躺不坐,能坐不站的人,除非必须再次寻找食物,否则是绝对不会浪费能量的人,也是对基因库有贡献的

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But countless chicken feathers go to waste.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, " White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said shortly after the election in November.

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Standing among 40 tonnes of food piled as high as my head, it is hard to imagine that all these beans, potatoes, jams and marmalades were about to go to waste.

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But if we leave it there, and do not become more introspective as a society and confront our own contradictions on race, sex, homophobia and violence, we will have allowed the moment to go to waste and failed.

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