Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as "a necessary evil".
与此同时,本可以让每个人生活更好的政府开支却被削减了,因为人们本能地——且错误地——将政府贴上了“必定邪恶”的标签。
I have now come to realize that being boring, in actuality, is not only about who you are as a person, but also how you present yourself.
我现在已经意识到,事实上,无聊不仅与你是谁有关,还与你如何展现自我有关。
Most people remember only a few events—usually ones that were meaningful and distinctive, such as being hospitalized or a sibling's birth.
大多数人只记得一些事情——通常是一些有意义和与众不同的事情,比如住院或兄弟姐妹的出生。
The designs and images on the surface of a tapestry are woven into the cloth as opposed to being only on the surface of the cloth.
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It's really as if the game is being played where the only choices available on the table are 1 through 67.
就如同这游戏的可选项只有,1到67之间的数字了
But, as you know, air is only 20% oxygen, the balance being nitrogen.
但是你知道空气中只有20%的是氧气,大部分的是氮气。
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