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unfinished business
未达成的心愿

Date: Aug 29 2013

Quote

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“It’s a major bit of unfinished business in my life that I never got to do the show I wanted to do… show the world how tolerant and wonderful a city it was and could have been… and hopefully will be again.”

- Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain on doing an episode of his cooking show in Beirut (People)

Definition

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task or goal that hasn’t yet reached completion

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Isn’t it frustrating when you start a project and can’t finish it? Maybe you aren’t able to finish the project because you run out of time. Or maybe you run out of supplies. Or maybe something else of a higher priority comes along, and the original project suddenly becomes less important. Whatever the reason, it never feels great to have unfinished business.

Something doesn’t have to be a project, or be related to your job, to be considered unfinished business. You can have unfinished business to take care of with another person, if you feel that the two of you have a conflict that’s unresolved. You can even have unfinished business with a place, if you feel that you never got to experience the place in the way you hoped to.

That’s how Anthony Bourdain feels about Beirut, Lebanon. He wanted to do an episode of his cooking show there and was never able to. He considers it unfinished business that he was never able to show the world what a beautiful city he feels Beirut is.

Who or what do you have unfinished business with?

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“I have some unfinished business with my brother. He still hasn’t apologized for beating me up when I was five years old. “

“I have some unfinished business at the university. I never really got to do the research I wanted to do. “

“I feel as if I have unfinished business with my hometown. I never figured out if I loved or hated it there.”

Winners

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	Something that hasn't been done. by Julissita
	goal that has not been reached by Olivine
	it means the work that a person want to do but he hasn't done it yet. by ana karnia
	Something that you've not accomplished as a goal in your own life by Manu4
	A goal that's not been achieved yet. by DarknessLight
	something you didn't chance to do by dearpesar

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Comments

CandiceAcclo

China

i have some unfinished businesses with traveling

Jasonlongo

Congo, Democratic Republic Of The

I have some unfinished businesses with my country…

Jobee

China

could I say I have unfinished business with girls?

DarknessLight

Germany

I have this story I started to write a couple of months ago but haven’t finished yet. My mind was kinda blank and I ran out of ideas, then I totally lost interest. I guess it’s going to be an unfinished business until I feel like writing again! lol!

Ya Nina

Kazakhstan

I always try to finish all the project what I whenever have, because I hate unfinished business. Certainly, it isn’t always successful, but I realy try. I consider that before you begin to do something, you need to calculate all main details which help you to realize the future project. You need to think what resource you need, how time you need and can you do it oneself or you need to ask assistance from other people. Also you need to have understandable plan how to realize your idea. In any case, I suppose that you have to have a lot of patience and persistence for the achievment of the goal, because without those qualities you can do anything.
I sincerely wish everybody to realize all your plans and haven’t got unfinished business!

Eugennnia

Russian Federation

Unfinished business sounds painfully familiar to me. As a teacher I want to do a lot of projects both with children and on my own. But I inevitably run out of time. I like my creative ideas but they need time to reach competion. In Russia we say: “If you run after two hares, you will catch neither”. So the way out is to set a priority.