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Определение yak shaving в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- The actually useless activity you do that appears important when you are consciously or unconsciously procrastinating about a larger problem
I thought I'd get more work done if I just fixed a problem with my .emacs file, but then I spent the whole afternoon yak shaving.
- Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem
I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.
yak shaving
Расстановка переносов
yak sha·vingТурецкое произношение
yäk şeyvîngПроизношение
/ˈyak ˈsʜāvəɴɢ/ /ˈjæk ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/
Этимология
() Uncertain, probably coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993-8)Brown, Jeremy (2000-02-11). "." URL accessed on 2010-06-16. , based on an episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show.Resimler
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