Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

借由反复某特定行为，人们可获得某人格特质。从事公平的行为，你将成为公平的人；从事温和的行为，你将成为温和的人；从事勇敢的行为，你将成为勇敢的人。

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She finds film-acting a test of endurance.

她觉得演电影是个考验耐力的工作。

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She smiled cheerfully, but I knew she was only acting a part.

她愉快地笑了，但是我知道那不过是装样子。

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Then,the car automatically switches to a gas-powered engine, acting as a generator that can power through 483 more kilometers.

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And the reason for this, and this is a very important point about the photoelectric effect, and the point here is that the electrons here are acting as particles, you can't just add those energies together.

这个现象的原因是，这是光电效应非常重要的一个论点,这个论点就是电子,在这里是粒子行为，你不能仅仅把这些能量加在一起。

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And, so I do a lot of Spanish hosting and acting and also bilingual,

所以我经常用西班牙语主持和演出，也有双语的，

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Yes, it is probably the case that if you have a kid playing Call of Duty for six hours at a time, he might come out of the other end of that acting a bit more aggressively.

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