This, for so long, seemed to be the last thing they would have wanted, much less chosen.

很长时间以来，火箭最不想做的就是这件事，更不要说真正这样做。

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Potential feelings are much less independently chosen than people realise.

人们很难意识到潜在的情感与作出的选择是相互关联的。

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They saw the chosen CD as much more attractive than before and the rejected CD as much less attractive.

在他们眼中，被选中的CD比之前更具吸引力，被淘汰的CD则更缺乏吸引力。

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Now, despite losing a second time, he has pushed Mr Maduro much harder, narrowing the margin between himself and Hugo Chavez's chosen successor to less than two percentage points, or 265, 000 votes, at the April presidential election.

BBC: Capriles in Caracas, 7 April 2013