I'm trying to do three jobs at once and I'm only managing to run around in circles.

我正在努力同时做三份工作，只能忙得团团转。

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Scientists have discovered that if they give amphetamines to a group of mice they will run wildly around in circles for 10 minutes and then drop dead.

科学家已经发现，如果给一组老鼠注射安非他命，它们会发疯地乱跑10分钟，然后死掉。

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We're not going to run around in circles forever.

我们并不想一直徒劳无益。

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Like Nintendo, the new generation of small fabless firms capitalise on some special skill (designing cheap but powerful computers in Akia's case) and then use their compactness to run circles around the heavyweights.

ECONOMIST: Small firms in Japan