We'v e shown that learning optimism prevents depression and anxiety in children and adults, roughly halving their incidence over the next 2 years.

研究证实，乐观可帮助儿童和成人,预防抑郁和焦虑，使未来两年的发病率降低一半。

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So, these are an important list of factors as to the factors that can make somebody less likely to bring it up to the killing level.

这些都是很重要的影响因素,它们能使电击者,进行致命电击的可能性降低。

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Oil, bonds, and stocks are all independent-- somewhat independent--they're not perfectly independent, but they're somewhat independent and, to the extent that they are, it lowers the variance.

石油，债券和股票都是互相独立-,一定程度上独立，不是绝对的独立，但一定程度上独立，可以使方差值变小，降低风险。

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I mean, if the energy is lower to occupy a smaller volume, then if I have this room and a bunch of molecules of oxygen, and nitrogen and what have you in the air, and there are weak attractions between them, why don't they all just sort of glum together and find whatever volume they like.

我的意思是，如果占据小的体积会使能量降低，如果我有这样一个空间,和一些氧气，氮气和其他空气中有的气体，并且分子之间还有微弱的相互作用，为什么他们不黏在一起,然后占据他们所想要占据的体积。

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