Yet I found myself spending that precious time slack-jawed, scrolling through my social media feeds.

然而，我发现自己把那段宝贵的时间于发呆，浏览我的社交媒体。

Five of their precious sixty minutes had already passed.

他们宝贵的六十分钟已经过去了五分钟。

Things won't always end up as you think, but you will gain valuable lessons along life's uncertain path.

事情的结果未必如你们所想，但在不确定的人生道路上，你们将获得宝贵的经验。

I look forward to your valuable advice.

我期待您的宝贵建议。

If you want to safeguard your precious hearing, try listening on low volumes.

如果你想保护你宝贵的听力，试着小音量听。

Therefore, many see the moon exclusively as a source of valuable resources.

因此，许多人只把月球看作宝贵资源的来源。

But practiced at its highest level, mise-en-place says that time is precious, resources are precious, space is precious, your self-respect and the respect of others are precious. Use them wisely. Isn't that a philosophy for our time?

但在最高水平的实践中，“mise-en-place” 意着时间宝贵，资源宝贵，空间宝贵，你的自尊和他人的尊重也宝贵。要明智地利它们。这难道不是我们这个时代的哲学吗？

Be careful not to give valuable space to insignificant achievements.

注意不要留宝贵的空间给不重要的成就。

Growth is so difficult that conifers protect their precious leaves by filling them with resin.

因为生长困难，针叶脂来保护宝贵的叶子。

Many of them wrote invaluable studies of the fascist mindset.

他们中很多人写过关于法西斯思想的宝贵研究。

Even the last hermit in his cave will have found out by now that just saving his precious hide has become a very precarious endeavour, indeed.

就连最后一个洞里的隐居者现在也已经发现要保护他那宝贵的隐藏之地确实都成了很危险的任务。

You know, I like the way you have efficiently folded this tab under. See in a tape emergency you could shave valuable seconds off your time.

莫妮卡，我很欣赏你有效率的把胶带的一端折起来。你看，急需胶带的时候，可省下好几秒宝贵的时间。

So why waste precious time arguing about what and who needs to change first.

那么，为什么要浪费宝贵的时间来争论什么和谁需要首先改变呢？

You'll waste precious time trying to rewire your every thought, and, in the mean time, you won't be fooling anybody.

你的宝贵时间将浪费在构思每种思想上，此同时，除自己之外，不会有人被愚弄。

If good people do nothing, there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

如果好人无所作为，一群不明真相的公众真的有可能扑灭医学进步的宝贵火种。

To the contrary, the court waxes eloquent about marriage as, " One of our community's most rewarding and cherished institutions."

相反，法院将婚姻辩称为“我们社会最有益及宝贵的制度之一。”

That means building an economy fit for the future and taking a balanced approach to government spending, so we get our debt falling but can also invest in the things that matter – our schools, our police and our precious NHS.

这就需要我们建立起能够适应未来的经济模式，政府开支要平衡，这样我们才能既减少债务，又能在重要的事情上投入，譬如：学校、警力和我国宝贵的英国国家医疗服务体系等方面。

We see our own children and their families embrace the roles, traditions and values that mean so much to us, as these are passed from one generation to the next, sometimes being updated for changing times.

我们看到自己的孩子和他们的家人们，接受了非常重要的角色、传统和价值观，这些宝贵的传统从一代传到了另一代，并随着时代的变化而被更新。

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose, cried the Nightingale, and life is very dear to all.

“拿死亡来换一朵红玫瑰，这代价实在太高了，”夜莺大声叫道，“生命对每一个生物来说都是很宝贵的。

Bringing back unneeded equipment would have used up precious resources such as fuel.

带回这些不再需要的设备意着对宝贵资源的浪费，例如，返程所需的燃料。