We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.

我们商议,以求保守或改变,让事物变好,或保守它不至于变得更坏。

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In order to communicate better about fear or not liking something.

这样你就可以更好地表达恐惧或者对某事的厌恶了。

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But if you start paying regular dividends, then you better keep doing them or people are going to conclude that something is really wrong.

但你一旦开始定期分红,就最好一直继续下去,不然人们就会得出运转不善的结论

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Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

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Just, I don't know, to feel better or something.

为了感觉好些吧,我也不知道

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All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

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His name is Carl Icahn, who is one of the biggest Wall Street-- powerful and enlightened people on Wall Street-- who can also maybe tell us something about how he makes money or how he makes it a better world.

他叫卡尔·伊卡恩,他是华尔街一位有影响力,有见识的商人,希望他也能和我们谈谈怎么赚钱,或者如何让世界更美好

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Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

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