The more time you can "sneak" studying in, the less time you'll have to devote to studying later in the night when you could be spending time with your family or doing something more interesting.

你偷出越多时间来学习，当以后某个晚上需要和家人一起欢度时光或做一些有意义事情时，你就可以投入少一些时间了。

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But until that day comes, we must devote major chunks of our precious time to doing our laundry.

但只要这一天不到，我们就还得把大量宝贵的时间用在洗衣上。

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Because the tax system is so complicated, many companies have to devote a lot of time and ingenuity to filling out tax forms that could be better spent on doing business.

由于税收系统的复杂，许多公司必须投入本应用于公司业务的大量时间和技巧来填报纳税申报表格。

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And those who devote their lives to doing epidemiologic research are eager, understandably, to obtain results that will contribute to disease prevention.

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You could also devote your evenings to hanging out at a local cafe and doing something productive, like blogging or reading.

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Unfortunately, the idea was that they should devote more effort to keeping an eye on competitors than absorbing the West's peculiar way of doing things.

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