And in general, when people devote a lot of energy or money or expense to something, they are extraordinarily resistant to having it proven wrong.

一般来说，当人们投入的精力，金钱或成本越多时，他们就越不会相信自己是错的。

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This thing's nice because rather than do "if" and "and and" or "or or" and all of this, you can instead enumerate things a little more cleanly, albeit apparently at the expense of more white space.

这个东西是不错的，因为它不用“if“和“and，and“,或者“or，or“所有的这些，你可以用枚举来更清楚地表达它，虽然表面上它用了更多的空格。

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