"The president has called for focusing in on what it really takes to be successful in work and in college, and he has called on America's educational institutions, primary and secondary educational institutions, to do whatever it takes to get our kids college ready.

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It takes work both at the individual level and it takes work at the group level.

不仅个人需要下功夫,群体也要下功夫。

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In order to not act in a stereotyped fashion, we have to consciously push them down, we have to consciously override them, and that's possible, but it takes work.

为了不表现出刻板印象，我们要有意识地压抑它们，我们要有意识地钳制它们，这是有可能的，但需要下功夫。

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So it's not that the result is going to be that I'm going to try to convince you that death isn't bad, but it takes actually a little bit of work to pin down precisely what is it about death that's bad and how can it be death?

所以，这么说,并不是我试图让你相信死亡不是坏事，但是这的确要花点时间来准确地说清楚,什么让死亡成了坏事，和怎样才算死亡？

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And that the extra work it takes to lie was beyond him.

撒谎所需要的额外行为超出了他的能力

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