Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.

我们能够通过暂停来消除我们固有的反应，这是我们与动物的不同之处：狗思考未来只能断断续续地或只能维持几分钟。

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"You need to think about luck in different ways," Massa suggests before pausing.

“你需要用不同的角度来思考‘运气’，”马萨说，停顿片刻。

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It might be worth pausing over the variety of ways in which we can think of signs in language, all of which have to do with the way in which a given sign might be chosen to go into a speech sentence.

这也许值得尝试,为了理解语言和符号的关系，这一切都和符号怎样,被选择为一段话语的构成部分有关系。

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Although, I think, I was pausing for a moment to raise that objection, it's not an objection that I think we should take all that seriously.

我停下来提出那个反驳,但我想这不是一个需要,我们认真对待的反驳

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Instead of pausing to think about change, we just let it happen to us.

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Before joining the shareholder activists calling for CEOs to be held accountable and stripped of their more obvious excesses, it's worth pausing to think about why those perks exist in the first place.

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