Telling yourself to stop being anxious when you're feeling anxious is a bit like telling yourself to fall asleep when you have insomnia—it doesn't work.

当你感到焦虑时，告诉自己不要焦虑，这有点像当你失眠时，告诉自己要入睡一样——是行不通的。

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If it doesn't work, send it back to the maker.

如果不管用，就把它退还给制造厂家。

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The clock is simply for ornament; it doesn't work any more.

这架时钟纯属摆设，它再也不走了。

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"The way the system is now works for no one. It doesn't work for the immigrants themselves, it doesn't work for the government and it doesn't even work for some employers."

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Normally, we do these things to keep an equilibrium among the different systems of the unconscious, but sometimes it doesn't work.

一般来说，我们会运用这些机制,去维持无意识系统的平衡，但有时防御机制也会不起作用。

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And I end up going back and doing unit testing anyway, to try and figure out why it doesn't work. So over the years, I've just convinced myself I might as well start where I'm going to end up.

第一次从来不会正常运行,因此无论如何我还要回头去做单元测试,找找哪儿出错了，因此经过这么多年，我已经说服自己既然一定要做单元测试,那么还是一开始就做最好了。

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And then suddenly we tell people to do things differently, and it doesn't work.

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He says he's prepared to give it up if the trial shows it doesn't work.

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But just because the medicine is not real does not mean it doesn't work.

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