Although a few people have very high (or very low) levels of self-control, two-thirds of us lie somewhere near the middle: sometimes finding it easy to resist temptation, other times not.

尽管有些人有或高或低的自制力，三分之二的人能力一般：有时候很容易抵制诱惑，有时候却很难。

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Resist the urge to say no just because you may not know everyone there or you may initially feel awkward.

不要因为不认识大家或者起初会觉得尴尬而说“不”。

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I'm not that into animals, but who can resist a film of nine kittens on a sofa all bopping their heads in time to music or the recording of a kitten squeaking its way down a slide?

我对动物并不是特别感兴趣，但是，一部有9只可爱的猫咪在沙发上，碰着头和着音乐的影片，或者一段小猫尖叫滑下滑梯的视频录像，又有谁能抵挡得住呢？

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Business Units or functional teams will always resist centralization of analytics because they would not get dedicated capacity anymore.

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They are a linchpin of reform, allowing politicians to argue that bail-outs will not happen again and regulators to resist calls for bigger safety buffers or a radical break-up of banks.

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As we democratize language and literacy we have to resist the temptation to see in its evolution a sort of breakdown or moral failure simply because not everyone speaks or writes as well as the Bard or as Ralph Fiennes.

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