He would rather be a plumber's mate and do a real job that requires doing than learning about hydrostatics sitting at a desk, without understanding what practical use they are going to be.

他宁愿做一个水管工的伙伴，做一份真正需要动手的工作，也不愿坐在桌子前学习流体静力学，而不知道这些东西有什么实际用途。

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If for some reason you needed to get rid of the file, the intelligent thing to do would be to stop the process, rather than just deleting the file.

如果出于某种原因，您需要删除这个文件，那么正确的做法是中止该进程，而不是直接删除这个文件。

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They would rather he concentrated on what he was elected to do, passing a balanced budget and lowering taxes.

他们更希望他将注意力集中到他当选后应该做的事情上去，即批准平衡预算和降低税收。

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What the vaccine would aim to do is achieve that in a much more rapid process rather than losing many people's lives and people experiencing a lot of illness before they develop immunity."

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So to just preface what we're going to do next time, what would happen if I wanted to do sort, and rather than in sorting the entire list at once, I broke it into pieces, and sorted the pieces, and then just figured out a very efficient way to bring those two pieces and merge them back together again?

所以为了引导下一次,我们要讲的内容,如果我想做排序,而且不是一次吧整个列表排完,会发生什么，我把它拆成小的列表,然后把各个小列表排序,接着用高效的方法再把小的列表？

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It would not be lack of ability to pay, but rather little willingness to do so, that would lead to debt restructuring.

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On Christmas day, I can think of a lot of things I would like to do rather than counsel a man about prison.

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