电视广告，相反，是迫使你浪费时间的东西。

TV ads, in contrast, are time wasters that are forced upon you.

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日常生活中不乏供我们浪费时间的东西：追求金钱、智慧、美丽、权力、名望。

Everyday life has no shortage of things with which to waste our time: the pursuit of money, intelligence, beauty, power, fame.

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多年以来我一直避开那些浪费时间的东西，电视，游戏和新闻组(usernet)，但是我还是受到了分心的干扰，因为我根本没有意识到分心的存在。

After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn't realize that it evolves.

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It's definitely an opportunity for help, but particularly, as an opportunity to work with someone for just a few moments to help get you unstuck or to get you past some stumbling block that, otherwise, if you struggled with on your own, you might sink or waste even multiple hours on just something that you're not seeing.

这是一个寻求帮助的机会，特别是，作为一个与某人一起工作的机会,他们能帮助你解决问题,或帮助你越过绊脚石，否则，如果你自己单独奋斗，你可能,浪费很多时间在,你不了解的东西上。

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