Frustrated after hundreds of hours of observation, they one day noticed a woman do with a paper towel what people do all the time: wipe something up and throw it away.
经过数百个小时的观察，他们感到沮丧。有一天，他们注意到一个女人拿着纸巾在做一件人们一直在做的事情：把东西擦干净，然后扔掉纸。
My friend Leo makes up weak and poor excuses whenever there is something he doesn't want to do.
每当我的朋友里奥有不想做的事情时，他会编造一些站不住脚的借口。
Under the control of the thugs, I was impressed by the pluck and helplessness of the Burmese. I made up my mind to do something for them.
在暴徒权力控制下，缅甸人的勇气和他们的无助给我留下了深刻的印象。我下定决心要为他们做些事情。
Neither side wanted to give up the island, but they knew they had to do something.
双方都不想放弃这个岛，但他们知道必须做点什么。
Then they try to teach the students something with a specific presentation style, like using visual AIDS, and do a follow up test to see how much they learned.
然后他们试着用一种特定的演讲风格教学生一些东西，比如使用视觉辅助，和做一个后续测试，看看他们学到了多少。
But to everyone's surprise, Terry Fox made up his mind to become a long-distance runner and do something about the cancer.
但令每个人惊讶的是，特里福克斯决心成为一名长跑运动员，为战胜癌症做些什么。
Yet, when something new turns up, more often than not, we do not even know its name.
然而，当新事物出现时，我们往往连它的名字都不知道。
It had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.
这和我痛苦疲惫的分手有关，我觉得一切都完了。
From then on, I made up my mind to do something against drugs.
从那时起，我下定决心要做一些抗击毒品的事情。
A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as cleaning up the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.
几年前，我们开始了这种“人情战”，我们中的一个人会为另一个人做一些好事，比如清理车道或搭建棚子，下次另一个人就会试图用另一个人情来顶上。
For instance, we ask our kids to do something or clean something up and they resist.
比如说，我们让孩子们做某事或清理东西时被他们拒绝。
When you watch someone do something, the same parts in your brain light up as though you were doing it yourself (called mirror neurons).
当你在看某人做某事时，你大脑里相同的部分会被唤起，并认为是你自己在做(称为镜像神经元)。
I think when someone says they want to do something but then follows up with, "... but I don't have any ideas, "what they actually mean is that they don't think they have any great ideas.
我认为当有人说他们想做什么但是紧接着说，“但是我没有任何的主意”，他们实际上是说他们不认为自已有任何好的主意。
But something in my mind kept nagging me to do "more" with my time... even when I could not come up with something to do.
然而一直有什么在头脑里念叨着让我抓紧时间做“更多”的事，即便我说不清该做什么。
What we are hoping to do is to come up with something that will give us a lifestyle that now only centenarians enjoy.
我们希望能够找到某种东西，它将带给我们一种全新的生活方式，而眼下只有百岁老人过着这样的生活。
Change your spending habits: do you always plan before you buy something or do you just pick things up?
改变你的消费的习惯：你在买东西之前总是有计划的呢，还是你只是随便挑一东西呢？
I remember getting up, determined to do something useful, walking three steps, turning around, going back, and laying down again.
记得我站起来，立志做些有用的事情，走三步，转身回去，又躺了下来。
Once the leader makes the decision to do something, the team-members should fully back up this decision by devoting themselves to fulfilling the task assigned.
一旦领导决定做某事，团队成员就应该全力支持这一决定，投身于指派的工作之中。
Ask yourself "What do I need to do with this" every time you pick up something from your email list, and either do it, schedule it for later, defer it to someone else, or file it.
每次处理你的邮件时，问自己“我怎么处理这个东西”，要么做，要么放到日程上，要么转给别人做，要么存档。
If mine tells me to do something, I'm inclined to get up off my bottom and do it.
如果我的老板吩咐我做件事，我会立刻起身去做。
"When you do something repeatedly over the years, it builds up a kind of power," nutritional psychologist Marc David says.
“当你每年重复做一些事情时，它会营造一种力量。”营养心理学家马克·大卫说到。
But to really gain confidence, you'll need to do something tangible. You'll have to show up and write, paint, stretch, plan, and execute.
但要真正赢得自信，你需要做一些明确的事情。你要展示出来、写下来、画下来、延续下去、有计划有执行。
I bear the possibility in mind, and basically what I do when something comes up is reactive.
我脑子里在考虑可能性，基本上是当发生某事时我所做的是反应。
Get up and do something relaxing, like listening to soothing music or flipping through a magazine.
干脆做点别的什么轻松一下，诸如听点舒缓的音乐或者浏览杂志。
It's all too easy to come up with a reason not to do something if we're feeling a bit tired or lazy.
当我们感到有点疲倦和懒惰的时候，实在是太容易编出一个不去做某件事的理由了。
How often do you avoid replying or bringing something up out of fear of your partner's reaction?
有多少次你因为担心伴侣的反应而避免回答或提出某些问题？
Not really a workout, but something I like to do to change things up, especially if I’ve been doing some of the harder runs above.
这不是真正意义上的跑步，而是我用来调剂的方法，尤其是如果我都进行了上面的几种强度训练之后。
Not really a workout, but something I like to do to change things up, especially if I’ve been doing some of the harder runs above.
这不是真正意义上的跑步，而是我用来调剂的方法，尤其是如果我都进行了上面的几种强度训练之后。
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