If you've always been a certain way or done a certain thing, but it's not working for you any more, or you're not content, Emerson says that it'd be foolish to be consistent even with our own past.

如果你总是以某种方式或做某种事情，但它不再适合你，或者你不满足，爱默生说，即使是与我们自己的过去保持一致也是愚蠢的。

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In some cultures, there is an amazingly large vocabulary to describe a certain thing.

在一些文化中，有惊人的大量词汇来描述某一特定事物。

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When a person does a certain thing again and again, he'll be obliged to do it in the same way by some unseen force. Thus habit is formed.

当一个人反复的做某件事时，他就会被某种看不见的力量驱使不得不以同样的方式再去做这件事，于是习惯就形成了。

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All right, but still it's a red light, right, and our hypothesis is that the red light has positive value in the sense that it means a certain thing. It means, we say, "stop."

它是一个红灯，我们假设红灯主动自带含义,它代表着，停“

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If you want to find out about their background or about how they feel about a certain thing,

如果你想了解他们的背景，或者他们对做某一件事有什么样的态度，

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For one thing, it has given us a richer understanding of certain learning mechanisms, particularly with regard to nonhumans.

一方面，行为主义使得我们能够,更加全面的理解某些学习机制，特别是非人类的学习机制。

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My friends who like a certain thing or participate in a specific activity.

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Composite applications often find they need to do a certain thing but there is no service available that can handle the task.

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Take a theory which predicts that a certain thing will happen if real wages rise and look for evidence of that occurrence.

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