I'm proud to say that I have been involved in most of the president's policy decisions, beginning before he was president all the way through to the end.

我可以自豪地说,我参与了总统的大多数政策决定,在他当选总统之前就开始了,一直到最后。

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In England, you have to decide early on before you even go to school

在英国，你在上法学院之前就要决定了，

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What you see is a bump up in activation in this nucleus accumbens in this area right when people see the product long before they are going to make a decision which continues.

这张图是受试者在见到商品之后,这一区域的伏隔核活动骤然攀升,而这种情况早在受试者作出决定之前,就已经发生，而且持续了下来。

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for a while before deciding, "I'd rather teach high school

那是在我下决定之前的一段时间，“我宁愿教高中，

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