不过，如果你仔细审视这个充满着不幸的事故，愚蠢的行为，以及间歇性危机的泥潭的话，还是可以大体看清那些足以令布朗全面展开大选竞争的原因。

But, if you peer into the quagmire of mishap, folly and intermittent crisis, you can also detect the essential contours of what will soon enough become Brown's full-blown general election campaign.

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上了岁数的女人都会变得很坦诚，如果你是一个傻子或者你的行为很愚蠢，她们就会很直接的告诉你！

Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk or if you are acting like one!

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断掉你的职业退路非常愚蠢，也是一种大胆的职业行为。如果你公开这么做就更是大胆了。

Burning your professional Bridges can be foolish or it can be a bold career move. It is even bolder if you do it in a public manner.

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If it doesn't make sense, you'll-- If it doesn't make sense or, more to the point, if it's something that you do that's foolish or makes you look manipulative or cheap, you'll distort it in your head so that it does make sense.

如果你的行为不合理，你会…,如果你的行为不合理，或者更确切的地说，如果你的行为很愚蠢,或者让你显得很攻于心计，或很廉价，你就会捏造理由说服自己这是合理的。

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