My mother wisely keeps the bar low — all she asks for is four or five sentences.

我的母亲明智的将标准设立的很低——她只要求四到五个句子。

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Clearly, if we set the bar low and do little work, that's a pace that we can maintain indefinitely.

很明显的，如果我们将标志杆设低，并少做工作，这也是我们能够长期维持的一种步调。

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"Set the bar low with new behavior modifications in order to make changes that'll last," says Josefsberg.

约瑟·伯格表示：“要想让改变持续下去，你就要把起步标准定得低一些，慢慢改变你的行为模式。”

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If x is high relative to x-bar--this is positive-- then y tends to be low relative to its mean y-bar and this is negative.

如果x比x均值要大,这个为正,而y比y均值小,这个为负

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