Lincoln was self-made in the more conventional sense—a walking, talking embodiment of the frontier myth made good.

林肯是一个更为传统意义上的自我奋斗者——一个神话般的成功开拓者的活生生的体现。

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Talking to your doctor about your pain might therefore be self-defeating claims the researchers at Jena University in Germany as it stimulates a part of the brain known as the “pain matrix”.

德国耶拿大学的研究人员称，向医生描述你的疼痛感同样会弄巧成拙 -- 因为这会激活脑部被称作“痛感矩阵”的区域。

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It's often said that talking to yourself is a sign of madness or certainly that you've been reading too many dodgy self-help books.

自言自语的人常被认为是疯了或是看了太多自我救助的书。

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"Anti-depressants do play a part but we tend to use a raft of different measures including talking groups and more recently self-help books, " Dr MacMoreland added.

BBC: Anti-depressant use in Gloucestershire increasing

There's a self-evident truth about ballplayers with mustaches: Ballplayers with mustaches love talking about mustaches.

WSJ: The Baseball Mustache: A Tradition With All the Trimmings

They've managed to turn a self-confident and appealing candidate into one who is afraid of veering off her talking points.

CNN: Borger: McCain's bold Palin move becomes a crisis of caution