Sleep turns a flood of daily information into what we call wisdom: the stuff that makes us smart for when we come across future decisions.

睡眠把我们白天里洪水般的信息变成所谓的智慧：那些当我们面对未来的挑战时，帮我们做出聪明决策的东西。

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One of the problems in our daily lives is that we're distracted by all the things we have to do - not just the stuff we're actually doing, but even the stuff we're not doing.

日常生活中有一个问题是，我们要为所有那些不得不做的事情分心——不仅是我们实际在做的事，还有我们没有在做的事情。

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All of her life had been one endless, timeless wait, queuing up for food, for clothing, for buses to take her across town, and for countless trivia that made up the stuff of daily interaction.

她的全部生活都陷入了无尽的等待，排队领食物，领衣服，乘公交车穿过市镇，无数琐事填满每天的生活。

youdao

And people,well-meaning people, would send him the Daily Californian and stuff like that and he'd find out about all the protests and the riots, and it was really demoralizing.

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