Telling yourself to stop being anxious when you're feeling anxious is a bit like telling yourself to fall asleep when you have insomnia—it doesn't work.

当你感到焦虑时，告诉自己不要焦虑，这有点像当你失眠时，告诉自己要入睡一样——是行不通的。

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Tha'lt stop bein' afraid in a bit.

你很快就会不害怕了。

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"I saw it crawl up the wall bit by bit. It did not stop, but went on and on. And I thought I could do the same. So I recited it bit by bit, and did not give up," said Tom.

“我看到它一点一点地爬上墙，它没有停下来，而是继续前进。我觉得我也能做到。所以我一点一点地背诵，并没有放弃。”汤姆说。

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So I'm going to read just parts, and I'm going to skip around a little bit and stop and start: How to enjoy James Joyce's great novel, Ulysses.

我会读其中一些部分，再读一下一些其他内容,然后再停下来讲：,“怎么欣赏詹姆斯，乔伊斯伟大的小说《尤利西斯》

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What this entails is just trying to stop controlling things, but I also mistake it a little bit because by stopping controlling things, you're going to control it more.

必须的是,试着放手不去控制事物，但这也是个悖论,因为想不控制事物，反而会加强控制。

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Now, I could go on right the way through here, but I'm going to stop because it gets to be a bit boring after a while.

我可以就这样一直算下去,但是还是到此为止吧,因为再这样下去会很无聊

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So even is copying other successful things: nothing like a bit of competition to stop monopolies arising.

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Please, stop this bit of insanity.

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Although it is difficult to think what they might be talking about, we know Britain has now put up the idea that the new eastern countries could stop paying their bit of the rebate.

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