父母、老师，甚至孩子们自己，会对孩子们的一些行为方式进行评估，例如“先行动，后思考”和“为达到目标而坚持努力”等等。

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like "acting before thinking" and "persistence in reaching goals".

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为了面子而坚持一项糟糕的政策，会让你显得更软弱。

It is much weaker to stick to a bad policy for the sake of it.

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闲聊最后变成了三小时的访问，其间他还不顾我对他身体的担忧而坚持去附近的公园走走。

It turned into a three-hour visit, punctuated by a walk to a nearby park that he insisted we take, despite my nervousness about his frail condition.

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Or perhaps, you could set a goal to lose weight and you could work very hard.

又或者，你制定了一个减肥的目标，你为此而努力坚持着。

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He claims to be studying and learning rather than producing right now; and there's a problem with just studying and learning, and it's a problem that Milton can't avoid.

他坚持学习而不是创作;,但这种单纯地学习存在一个问题，这是个弥尔顿无法回避的问题。

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