Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self.
尽管幽默本质上是社会性的，但你如何使用它却能反映出你的自我意识。
For one thing, it is important because it sets animals with a sense of self apart from those without a sense of self.
一方面，它很重要是因为它把有自我意识的动物和没有自我意识的区分开来。
It takes a lot of self-discipline to go jogging in winter.
在冬天跑步是需要很大的自律力的。
At the risk of sounding self-pitying, I'd say it has been harder on me than it has on Joanne.
尽管听着像是自怜，我还是要说这对我比对乔安妮更难承受。
Sometimes a bit of selfishness, if it leads to greater self-knowledge, is no bad thing.
有时候一点点的自私，如果能引发更多自知之明，也并非坏事。
I think it would be a gross distortion of reality to say that they were motivated by self-interest.
我认为说他们被自身利益所驱使是对事实的公然扭曲。
It is assumed that you are interested in achieving greater self-awareness.
这是假定你想要更加了解自己。
It hurts laymen's dignity and self-esteem.
这会伤害外行人的尊严和自尊。
It may sound absurd but don't forget—the university actually offers free self-defence classes.
这听起来可能很荒谬，但别忘了——实际上，这所大学会提供免费的自卫课程。
This is an aspect of the self that he labelled "self-as-subject", and he gave it various elements.
这是自我的一个方面，他称之为“自我为主体”，并且他给它赋予了各种元素。
When IT is operating as it should, employee self-confidence swells.
当IT正常运行时，员工的自信心就会增强。
It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.
这不是谷歌著名的自动驾驶汽车第一次发生车祸，但是这是第一次由它引起的撞车事故。
By encouraging self-reflection and daydreaming, it can spur creativity.
通过鼓励自我反思和幻想，它可以激发创造力。
The Three Rules is a self-conscious contribution to this type of writing; it even includes a bibliography of "success studies".
《三条规则》是对这类写作的自觉贡献；它甚至包括“成功研究”的参考书目。
I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.
我一直在翻看大萧条时期自称专家的人对失业问题的观点；这几乎和现在那些“非常严肃的人”所说的如出一辙。
One must be duly self-disciplined to adhere to it.
人要适当自律才能坚持它。
Though our own world was seemingly self-contained, it impacted on the white world of Piedmont in almost every direction.
虽然我们自己的世界似乎是自给自足的，但它几乎从各个方面影响着皮埃蒙特的白人世界。
And though our own world was seemingly self-contained, it impacted on the white world of Piedmont in almost every direction.
虽然我们自己的世界似乎是自给自足的，但它几乎从各个方面影响着皮埃蒙特的白人世界。
Children appear to have it down to an art and for the most part they don't need self-help books or therapy.
孩子们似乎已经把它归结为一门艺术，而且在很大程度上，他们不需要自助书籍或治疗。
It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive eating away your self-esteem and irritating others.
它可以建立更好的人际关系，帮助你应付生活，或者它可以腐蚀你的自尊，激怒别人。
His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralizing authority to self-organizing teams.
他的解决方案是从正在与之战斗的叛军那里学到一些东西：把权力下放给自行组织的团队。
Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.
富兰克林在很大程度上是自学成才的，他可能是一个天才，但在谈到美国制造和美国创造时，他并非例外。
No matter why there is growing interest in self help books, it's good to know that help is at hand if we need it.
不管为什么人们对自助书籍越来越感兴趣，知道如果我们需要，帮助就在手边是件好事。
This self-handicapping, it is important to take this into account before just deciding to go with that first explanation.
这种自我设限很重要，在决定采用第一个解释之前，必须要考虑到这一点。
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