You don’t let people and external circumstances control your life.

别人和外在的环境将无法控制你的生活。

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Four main factors, it seems: gender, personality, external circumstances and age.

似乎有四个主要因素：性别，个性，外部环境以及年龄。

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Perhaps the U-bend is merely an expression of the effect of external circumstances.

也许u型轨迹只是外部环境造成影响的一种表示方法。

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Not saying that the external circumstances are not important, we should focus also on improving them,bettering them, whether for ourselves,for society at large.

并不是说，外部环境不重要，我们同样应该注重改善外部环境，无论是我们自己，或对整个社会。

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Third,premise related to the first is opposed to happiness which is primarily function of external circumstances.

第三，这个前提与,与决定幸福的,外部环境无关。

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But beyond the extremes, additions or subtractions to our external circumstances make very little difference.

但在这些极端情况之外，增加或减少的外部环境,产生的区别很小。

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Holiness thus doesn't require a change in external circumstances, but a change in attitude, seeing everything anew in the light of one's supernatural destiny.

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In view of the unsettled internal and external circumstances regarding Iran, the company has committed not to expand the scope of its existing work in Iran.

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If they have incredible endurance and try to outlast their opponents, set a negotiating time period that is forced to be very short because of external circumstances or plane flights.

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