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1. The National Park Service in America – let's be candid here – does a pretty half-assed job of running many of the national parks.
咱们还是直说吧,美国国家公园管理局在管理众多国家公园方面做得相当不妥。

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2. The half-assed code eventually costs a lot higher and is detrimental to the business.
长期来看,半途而废的代码成本要高得多,而且会伤害业务。

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3. He was a little monster, such as can be seen on the porch of any half-assed cathedral in Europe.
他是一个小怪物,在欧洲任何一座不那么像回事的教堂门口栖息的怪物。

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4. Use the upload speed column in chatrooms and search results for a half-assed estimate of users' upload speeds.
用聊天室中和搜索结果中的速度估算用户的上传速度。

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5. We've spilled a lot of ink over Android's lack of media syncing, and what seemed like an half-assed online sync system.
我们已经花费大量笔墨批评Android系统媒体同步功能的不足,它看起来就像是粗糙的在线同步系统。

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6. When I look at my brother I see someone I have nothing in common with: he sees a half-assed writer who CARES only for esoteric matters.
当我看着弟弟时,我看到一个和我没有任何共同点的人:他看到的是一个不着调的作家,关心的都是些深奥的东西。

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7. Consider the achievement of presenting at a conference: you could certainly do a half-assed job just to say you've earned this achievement.
比如在一个会议演讲这个成就:你完全可以做到一般称职的时候就说你赢得了这份成就。

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8. Hence, the stakeholders are mostly happy with a half-assed option as it does not cost much and still delivers the value that they are looking for.
因此,利益干系人最喜欢半途而废的选择,因为成本不高,而且仍能交付他们想要的价值。

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9. And if it is absolutely imperative to your worldview to believe this is true, just say it's the devil in your brain and leave half-assed scientific explanations out of it.
如果非要命令你相信这是真的,那只能说魔鬼在你的大脑里,并留下了一堆不靠谱的科学解释。

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10. Odds are she won't want to say "let's talk about this later" in front of everyone. Instead you'll get an awkward silence while she contemplates the question followed by a half-assed yes.
有可能她不会当着大家的面说“我们晚点再说吧”,但是她在思考这个问题的时候,你得经历一段尴尬的沉默,而她的回答也多半会是不情不愿的“好吧”。

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11. Odds are she won't want to say "let's talk about this later" in front of everyone. Instead you'll get an awkward silence while she contemplates the question followed by a half-assed yes.
有可能她不会当着大家的面说“我们晚点再说吧”,但是她在思考这个问题的时候,你得经历一段尴尬的沉默,而她的回答也多半会是不情不愿的“好吧”。

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