To phone it in or run out the clock, regardless of how alone and impotent you might feel in your work, is to commit an especially tragic — for being so preventable — brand of public sin.

无论你感到工作多寂寞多没有前途，一旦你这样做，就是让你的可怜品牌背负了公共的罪责。

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In a sign of The Times, the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits.

在时代的广告牌上，纽约国家债务钟上的数字不够用了。

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We're very mindful of the possibility that the Iranians would simply try to run out the clock,".

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Now, the clock says I've run out of time.

哦,我们的时间不多了

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I run out of the house and then usually around 3 o'clock somebody points out, in one case a homeless man, that I have a big glob of shaving cream in my ear or-- because I neglected to actually look in the mirror while I shaved.

然后冲出家门,大概到了下午三点时，会有人跟我说，有一次是一个流浪汉，告诉我，我耳朵上有一团剃须膏-,因为我剃须时忘了,照镜子。

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George W. Bush George W. Bush is playing football, running the ball up the gut in an effort to run out the clock.

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But despite claims of interest in reform, industry lobbyists are refusing to offer concrete suggestions and trying to run out the clock on our efforts.

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And we knew that there would be powerful voices that would do everything they could to run out the clock, change the subject, ignore the majority of the American people.

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