For many people, the peak earning years of midlife offer a sense of competence and mastery.

对多数人来说，中年赚钱的顶峰时期给人一种能力和有技术的感觉。

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To many of our customers, to own this bag is to achieve a sense of competence like nothing else.

我们的许多客户认为，拥有这款包是为了获取一种无可比拟的满足感。

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When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

当有这么多的美国人已经很清楚的感觉，一个院长，在高水平的能力，远见，和完整性，破坏了国家和自己的理想？

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Most studies instead point to the importance of more general traits, like autonomy or a sense of competence (see, for example, the voluminous research literature on Self-Determination Theory for more on such findings).

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Going forward, the only way Romney defeat the Gingrich-led insurgent challenge stripped him of his claim to inevitability once and for all is if he can stay on the offense, descend from his Ivory Tower and generate a sense of authenticity and competence with the electorate that he has been unable to achieve to date.

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His book grows out of a sense that agency and competence are central to personal motivation at work.

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