Now whenever I hear of a friend who's lost a loved one, I no longer call with the polite offer, "If there's anything I can do…" Instead I try to think of one specific task that suits that man's need, like taking the dog to the boarding kennel, or house sitting during the funeral.

现在，每当我听到朋友失去亲人，我不再打电话礼貌地提出“如果有什么我能做的……”相反，我试图想出一个特定的适合那人需要的任务，如带狗去寄宿养犬处，或在葬礼时看房子。

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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。

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Try to do only one thing at a time.

尝试在一段时间只做一件事。

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"What we try to do is - for each hospital that we work with - become the number one or number two provider of U.S.patients, so that we really can build a very good relationship with those hospitals and make sure that patient benefits from that."

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So let's actually let you try another example of solving a problem that has to do with one of the spectrums.

下面请大家来看一下另一个例子,这次是一个需要大家解决的关于光谱的问题。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I said at the core blitz that one of the things I'm going to try to do is introduce some things from beyond chemistry. So, let's see what the Bard had to say about nomenclature.

我曾在核心闪电战上说,我想做的意见事情就是介绍一些东西,出于化学，也高于化学，所以，我们看看巴德对命名法是怎么说的。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Ms. NATALIE BIONDOLILLO (Private investigator, New Orleans): Well, do you want to try it one more time or do you want me to go ahead and give it a try this weekend.

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Let me do one quick announcement and try to get this back somehow onto the rails.

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"The thing that people want to do is settle back in, so one of the first things they do is try to clean up, " says Dr. Joe Guarisco, systems chief of emergency services at Ochsner Health System, which operates in the New Orleans area.

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