Participants imagined being one out of three people in a video clip who had either a fluent conversation or a conversation in which flow was disrupted by a brief silence.

在一段视频剪辑中，参与者们想象自己是三个人当中的一个，他们要么有一段流利的谈话，要么有一段被短暂的沉默打断了的谈话。

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Life had knocked them around, but for a brief moment they were being refreshed by an ennobling experience.

生活让他们不得不辛苦劳作，但是在这一刻他们的生命被重新注入了力量。

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Shattered by the end of a brief marriage, jobless, and a single mother, Rowling said she was "as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless."

被短暂的婚姻结束所撕裂，没有工作，还是单身母亲，罗琳说她“就像当代英国所接受的穷人一样，除了没有无家可归。”

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By being consistent, funny and brief he was able to beat the big guys at their own game and generate more and better loans than his competition and with literally no marketing costs.

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It's also an opportunity to brief the President on issues of the European Union and the progress being made by the European Council, with particular reference to the EU-U.S. trade -- participation and free trade, to which the President referred in his State of the Union address.

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The policy brief is being released concurrently with the first major report on the governance of geoengineering by the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative of the Royal Society, Environmental Defense Fund and TWAS (the academy of sciences for the developing world).

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