Like how most people derive as much (if not more) happiness from planning fun things than from the actual act of doing them.

例如，大多数人从规划有意思的事情中比从实际去做这些事情中获取更多一点的快乐。

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The Met's defence was that the actual target of its invocation of the Official Secrets Act was the indiscreet police officer.

大都会的则反驳说：《官方保密法》的实际目标是轻率的警务人员。

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The act of denying your actual age in order to give others the impression that you are younger.

隐瞒自己的实际年龄，给别人一种比实际年轻更小的印象。

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"We need to see this the actual law passed by Congress, this EPCA, Electronic Privacy Communications Act made much more stronger, brought up to date.

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Whereas pushing the fat man over is an actual act of murder on your part.

而反之，把胖子推下去则是你自己的直接谋杀行为。

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Second, even if we succeeded on establishing their liability, PwC India had viable arguments that they were at most reckless in conducting their audits, and did not act with actual knowledge of the fraud.

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Included were a vastly beefed up Community Reinvestment Act, actual or threatened discrimination suits by Justice and HUD to enforce regulatory requirements, and regulatory mandates on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to finance trillions in mortgage securities backed by subprime mortgages.

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They did not go that far with the actual act, but they went pretty far.

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