In desperation, you draft a "to-do" list, but most days, you can make little progress with it.

在绝望中，你起草了一份“待办事项”清单，但大多数时候，你几乎无法取得进展。

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We'll have to make do with the little material we've got.

只好就这块料子做了。

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Maybe we do a little shading of the truth in order to make a buck. Maybe we overvalue something or maybe we just don't tell somebody what's wrong with it when we're selling it to them.

也许我们会做一些什么去掩盖真理而只是为了赚钱，也许我们会过分看重某些东西，抑或者我们只是在我们卖东西给别人的时候故意隐瞒了一些货物的瑕疵。

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Ruvkun hopes to modify the device to make it simpler, and says that he could make do with as little as a thousand bases.

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