I have a terrible habit of always wanting something, it could be something to eat, read, watch or say, but whatever it is I don't need it and the satisfaction it brings is very temporary.

我有一种可怕的习惯，就是总想拥有一些东西，可能是吃的、读的、看的或说的，但无论是什么，都不是我需要的，它带给我的满足感也是非常短暂的。

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In places, some owners have experimented with repairing buildings with an adobe made of mud and straw baked in the sun. But it is a very temporary solution.

有些地方，一些人正在尝试用泥土和太阳烘干的稻草做成粘土修理房屋，但这必然只能作为一种临时的解决方案。

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Study after study shows that putting people into positions of power--even when the power is temporary, randomly assigned, and not very great--alters their behavior in predictable ways.

当人们获得了某种权力——虽然这种权力不大，且是暂时的，随机分派的——他们的行为方式也随之出现了意料之中的改变。

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But after the bailiffs came and tore it all down, she said that the women chose from that point on to build temporary structures which could be moved and shifted at very little notice.

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"It's very viable to build temporary facilities for things like cycling and swimming, " says Michael Moran, a former U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman who worked on New York's unsuccessful 2012 bid.

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Upon assessing the Bear Stearns' situation, the Federal Reserve decided to take the very important and consequential action of authorizing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to institute a temporary program for providing liquidity to primary dealers.

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