Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

  • -- C. Northcote Parkinson 帕金森

工作不断扩大,以填补完成工作所需的时间。

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I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

我的第一份工作是用老式的方法得到的:我乘电梯到许多大楼的顶层,一层一层地走楼梯,走进每家公司,问接待员她知不知道有什么职位空缺。

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

随着时间的流逝,你改变了,你学到了新的东西,你的态度也变了。目前,我仍然非常喜欢滑雪比赛,以至于我很难考虑结束我的职业生涯。

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

官僚主义捍卫现状的时间早已过去,当现状失去了它的地位。

What we have currently available is what we have available.

我们现有的就是我们现有的。

I have sifted my flour and hung up the sieve.

我已经筛好面粉,挂好了筛子。

A cast is not a catch.

打石膏不容易。