A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as cleaning up the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.
几年前，我们开始了这种“人情战”，我们中的一个人会为另一个人做一些好事，比如清理车道或搭建棚子，下次另一个人就会试图用另一个人情来顶上。
This approach is frequently used to protect the income of new sales representatives for a period of time while they are building up their sales clientele.
这种方式经常用来让新的销售代表着建立起他们自己的客户之前保证他们的收入。
Since building up the infrastructure to make the switch takes time, traditional texts will still be used during the transition.
因为建立这样促使变革的基础设施需要时间，传统的课本在过渡时期仍然被使用。
Probing further, they weren't willing to invest the time building up web galleries and inviting others only to find that the service might be priced out of their expectation.
进一步访谈得知，他们不愿意花时间建立网页图片分类和邀请其他人，因为很可能这种服务的价格会超出他们的期望。
A successful test-firing was held on Friday and the first nuclear collisions will take place in the autumn, building up to full power around the time of the millennium.
在本周五进行了一次成功的开机点火试验，而第一次核碰撞将在秋季进行，到时设备将围绕千年时间问题满功率负载运转实验。
After a few years building up strength, they swim back to the beaches were they were born to lay up to 150 eggs at a time in holes dug in the sand.
几年过去了，它们的力气增强了，他们便游回了他们的出生地，在那里繁衍下一代，他们一次可以产下150个蛋，然后挖个洞把这些蛋埋在沙子里。
And much to their partner's annoyance, many women hang on old shoes, building up a sizeable collection by middle age, even if many go unworn most of the time.
而让她们的伴侣苦恼的是，女人们总是不扔旧的鞋子，这样到了中年的时候就积攒了一大堆鞋，即便有的从来都没穿过。
And if I agreed to the increasing requests, they were building up my image - at the same time making it harder and harder to go against it, to say no to the next request.
而且，如果我同意接下来的越来越多的要求，他们会加固我的这一形象，同时，使我越来越难违背它，拒绝接下来的请求。
But, those apart, it seemed a time when America could ignore foreign wars in favour of building trade deals and perking up growth at home.
不过除了这些，当时似乎是一个美国可以忽略外战、可以致力于促进国内商贸和提振经济增长的时代。
It is going to be an exciting time for anyone involved in building the new Web, because the interfaces are finally catching up with the content.
这对正在建造新一代网络的任何人来说都是一个令人兴奋的时刻，接口终于赶上了内容。
Unfortunately, at the same time bugs have increased by 75% - we are building crap faster - and we are piling up technical debt that will have to be addressed sooner rather than later.
不幸的是，与此同时缺陷也增加了75%，我们更快地创建了垃圾代码，并且累积了越来越多的技术债务，它们应该被尽早解决。
Every time I looked up at the building, somebody was jumping from it. Like from 107, Windows on the World.
每次你抬头，都会看到一个人从大厦上跳下，比如从107层的‘世界之窗’（译者：世贸中心顶楼的一家酒吧）。
People can compose individual characters relatively easily by building them up a stroke at a time.
人们可以将这些笔画做简单的组合来得到一个汉字。
Now let's imagine that your ambergris has been building up for a while now, and it's time to get rid of it.
再想象一下，您的龙涎香日积月累地越变越大了，是时候把它给丢掉了。
Many people think that exercise is the key to losing weight and building strong bones at the same time — but this may only be true up to a point.
他还说，“许多人以为锻炼既可以减肥，又可以强骨，但这可能只对了一部分。”
Do this for 5-10 minutes at a time, building up to 20-30 minutes.
每次做5 - 10分钟，逐渐增加到20 -30分钟。
"They were shot selection and building up his safety game, " Fung said. "I needed to convince him that a good safety game provided more chances and more time to pot balls.
“这些都是关于如何选择球路和加强安全球，”Fung说，“我必须要让他相信，一个好的安全球能够提供更好的机会和更多的时间去进球。”
Frustration among us environmental groups has been building up for some time, evident in these blog comments last year from Jake Schmidt of the National Resources Defence council.
可以从美国自然资源保护委员会的杰克·施密特去年的这些博客评论中看出，美国环保团体在一段时间内有些沮丧。
Michael tells his brother that he found their access to the infirmary building, but he'll need extra time to find out how they'll get up a twenty foot vertical drain pipe without a ladder.
Michael告诉他哥哥，他找到了通往医务室大楼的路径，但他需要想个办法出来，能够不用梯子就爬上20英尺高的垂直排水管。
You could spend months mastering SEO, tweaking your blog theme and building up your network on Twitter … but you could be wasting your time.
你可以花几个月来掌握搜索引擎优化技术，尝试不同的博客页面主题，或者在Twitter上建立你的人际网络，但你可能只是在浪费时间。
Solutions that take too long will never get done, so Squirrel suggested thinking about what you can do in a week or even in a hour, and building up the solution the next time a problem happens.
一个周期很长的方案永远也不会有完成的那一天，所以Squirrel建议更多地考虑一周之内你能做什么，甚至是一个小时之内，下次问题出现的时候，再去制定相应的解决方案。
Just as loop quantum gravity breaks up space into tiny "building blocks", CDT assumes that space-time is split into tiny building blocks - this time, four-dimensional chunks called pentachorons.
只不过圈量子引力理论把空间分为微小的“构建模块”，而CDT假设空间-时间不是分成微小的构建模块—而是叫做pentachorons的四维的小块。
My childhood is about 12 months, I am learning and building up my habit during this time.
我的童年时光大约是12个月，在这个段时间中我学习很多知识和生活习惯。
The thing that takes most of your time in building the OpenGL client for the first time is setting up the environment.
在第一次构建OpenGL客户机的过程，大部分时间都花在设置环境上。
For the time being Gamutsoft is building up its infrastructure and strategy for virtualization, comparing to much bigger organizations such as IBM, and AT&T where it is already in place.
目前金道正在建立其虚拟化基础架构和战略，而虚拟化在一些大型企业如IBM、AT&T等公司里已经部署。
After years of pouring much time and energy building up my business, I wanted to spend some time exploring my personal interests.
多年来，我耗费了庞大的时间和精力来经营我的事业，现在我想花点时间来探索我个人的兴趣了。
After years of pouring much time and energy building up my business, I wanted to spend some time exploring my personal interests.
多年来，我耗费了庞大的时间和精力来经营我的事业，现在我想花点时间来探索我个人的兴趣了。
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