This may be a puzzlement to those around you because most of the time you are so self-restrained and in perfect control.

这对你周围的人来说，可能会很不解，因为你大部分时候都非常地自制跟处在完美控制下。

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In this process, on one hand, the people become self-conscious and self-restrained about their gnosia of the thing and its boundary.

在这一过程中，一方面，使得人们对自身之于万物的认识能力和认知界限有一种自觉和自持；

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With his going there is one great reason the less for self-restraint among those naturally inclined to be self-restrained.

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