Things happen like this: at a given moment the nature seems to have yielded and you think you have got the desired result.

事情是像这样发生的：在某个特定的时刻，本性似乎已屈服，而你以为你已得到想得到的结果。

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Things like this happen sometimes right under our noses.

这样的事情有时候就在我们的眼皮底下发生。

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Still, things like this only happen to losers who can’t keep up their mortgage payments, right?

不过，是不是这种事情只发生在那么无法继续支付抵押贷款的失败者身上？

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I mean,it would be totally bizarre. Things like this don't happen.

这是非常怪诞的，这种事不可能发生。

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And you're just unconscious of how this happens but it's unpleasant and kind of frightening that this could happen, that this could apply to things like why you're now studying at Yale, why you feel the way you do towards your friends, towards your family.

你根本没有意识到知觉过程是如何发生的,但当你将无意识概念应用到很多事情中时,你便会感到不悦和恐惧,比如，你为什么会来耶鲁求学，你为什么会觉得应当这样，去对待你的朋友和家人。

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Then things like this happen and it puts a tainted memory on everything you did and puts you in a position of wanting to get answers now.

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Yes, of course, things, mistakes, like this can happen to anyone.

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Police and town leaders in Greece -- a community that has nearly 100, 000 residents, three school districts and nearly 42 square miles of area yet still proudly sees itself as a town, one where things like this just don't happen -- talked about being peppered with messages from around the world decrying the episode.

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