After thinking a moment, he said it already exists.

在思考了一会之后，他说已经存在了。

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Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

把时间看作是一种需要最大化利用的资源，意味着你功利性地对待它，认为任何特定的时刻都应该充分利用起来以使其朝着某一既定目标迈进。

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I could not undestand what he was sorry about, and I just said, "Bye!" After a moment of thinking, I realized how stupid I was.

我不明白他为什么道歉，就说：“再见！”经过片刻的思考，我意识到我是多么的愚蠢。

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I think it's worth thinking about, at least for a moment, of the oddity of this terrible act of self-mutilation.

我认为这值得思考，至少值得思考一会，有关自毁形象的怪异之处。

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But this was a moment of particular and headlined notoriety in the history of academic thinking about literature, and a moment in which academic thinking about literature had a peculiar influence on topics much broader than literature.

但那是一个臭名昭著的时代,在文学学术思想的历史上，也是那个时候，文学学术思想,对比文学宽泛得多的话题所产生的特别影响。

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The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

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With the bright blue sky and warm autumn sun, for a bizarre moment I remember thinking it looked more like a scene from a college brochure than the evacuation of a building under attack.

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Or maybe you had a fleeting moment of thinking why one hears so little about Grenada compared to other Caribbean islands such as Barbados.

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But in a moment of strategic thinking, I committed The China Business Network to hosting an event on opportunities in the healthcare sector in China, in Boston on June 3.

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