The reason I make my clients search my office for a pen, a coffee cup, or my elderly, immobile beagle is because many of us do this with major life decisions.

我让他们在我的办公室里寻找一支钢笔、咖啡杯，或我那条老迈不动弹的小猎犬是因为我们许多人在面临人生重大决定时也在采取这个态度。

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But there was only one breed I imagined owning, a beagle, and there weren't any available.

但是那里只有一种我认为可以养的狗，毕尔格猎犬，没有更好的品种。

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Yet I get no repose and I can't even doze without dreaming I'm back on the Beagle.

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Her death was wrenching, and even now, more than three decades since her passing, when I see a beagle, I melt.

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Last summer, when I first met Prof Siegert, I was too polite to remind him of what had happened to another British science project, the Beagle 2 mission to Mars, the spacecraft named after the ship that had carried Charles Darwin.

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