Of course. Mailboxes are emptied several times a day.

当然了。邮筒每天要开好几次呢。

You're just kind of having this empty free time.

你只是有点空闲时间。

They moved back into position with the desk between them, Harry feeling he was going to find it much harder to empty his mind this time.

两人隔着桌子站好，哈利感到这次清空大脑要困难得多。

When your brain realizes that you have more time to finish the job than you need, your brain will complicate the task to fill all the empty time.

当你的大脑认为你有更多的时间完成这项本不需要这么多时间的工作，你的大脑就会把这件事想的更为复杂，这样多余的时间就会被占用起来。

Whether personal or public, the clock's goal is to mitigate impatience, to replace uncertainty with anticipation, and to fill empty waiting time with a quantified temporality.

无论是个人还是公众， 时钟的目标是减轻不耐烦，用期待代替不确定性， 用量化的时间来填补空虚的等待时间。

Similarly, if in imagination we travel backwards or forwards in time, it is difficult to believe that we shall reach a first or last time, with not even empty time beyond it.

同样，如果在想象中我们在时间中倒退或前进， 很难相信我们会到达第一次或最后一次， 甚至没有超越它的空虚时间。