If you can't control a situation you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

如果你不能控制周围的情况，那么将会使自己陷入失望中。

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Animal experiments by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania had shown that after repeated failures, most animals conclude that a situation is hopeless and beyond their control.

宾夕法尼亚大学的心理学家进行的动物实验表明，在多次失败之后，大多数动物都会作出这样的结论：情况已无可救药，超出了它们的控制范围。

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Stress is generally driven by the feeling of being out of control of a situation, and the feeling of a situation controlling you.

压力通常源于无法控制局面，或者感觉局面在控制你。

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But the government may give permission if students are suddenly faced with a situation that is out of their control.

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The present arrangement has the merit of giving America control of a situation for which America will in the end anyway be blamed.

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For a control freak like Jobs, that's not a pleasant situation.

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So, when you go into the situation, then that has a lot to do with taking control of the situation and then doing it.

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