And when you realize everything else is optional (or, at the very least, malleable), you start to see a thousand different ways to do your work.

当意识到其它的东西是可选的时候(或者，至少是可暂时搁置的)，你将会开始发现有上千种方法来做好你的本职工作。

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There may be a thousand different ways to express your sense of humour, but joke telling is only one of those ways.

或许有一千种表达幽默感的方法，但是讲笑话只是其中之一。

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So you find yourself constantly being interpreted in a thousand different ways.

WHITEHOUSE: G20 Summit Presidential Press Conference

It was almost as if there was an "off" switch for the self, buried deep in our minds, and the world's religions were a thousand different ways of pressing the switch.

CNN: Why we love to lose ourselves in religion