End up where you started. It's not quite the same as the shortest path, and figure out the way to do that that involves spending the least money. Or the least time, or something else.

最后回到最初的地方,这和最短路径问题有些不同,需要找出一条花费最少,或者费时最少或者满足其它条件的路径。

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Again, there was a loss of confidence in the time of an economic crisis and people wanted to withdraw their money from the banks.

此外,在经济危机时期,投资者对银行失去信心,他们希望把钱从银行取出来

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You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

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So tens or hundreds of millions of dollars would go into a study like this by the time it was completed, money that could have been used for other things, to test whether eating a low fat diet would reduce risk for breast cancer.

数以百万计的美元,投入到这样的研究,当研究结束时,本可以用来做其他事情的钱,被用来检测是否低脂膳食,可降低患乳腺癌风险

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I need to spend less time at the office and more time with my family, telling the people that I love that I love them, doing the things that are important to me, spend less time worrying about getting ahead, making money,getting the plasma TV,whatever it is.

我要花更少时间在工作上，多陪陪家人，告诉我爱的人们我爱他们，做那些对我来说重要的事情，不再浪费时间担心如何获得成功，想着赚大钱，买等离子电视什么的。

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But they spent a lot of time, energy, and money on being sure that they would have a supply of water to hold them for a long siege.

他们花费了大量的时间,精力,和金钱来确保,在长期的围城中他们可以获得足够的水源

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