如果你对自己说：“我睡不着”，那就欺骗自己，假装很困乏。

If you're saying to yourself, "I can't sleep," trick yourself into thinking the opposite by pretending to be sleepy.

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如果你对自己说：“我正在浪费时间”，这不足以控制你的行为，采取更主动的一步。

If saying to yourself, "I'm wasting time," isn't enough to curb your behavior, take more proactive steps.

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如果你对自己的国家说了一些不礼貌的话，没关系，但不要这么说别人的国家。

It's fine if you say something impolite about your own country, but don't do it about someone else's.

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If you stop and think of it as a grammatical question, you say to yourself, "Gee, that's a very good question, isn't it, because, of course, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the dancer from the dance.

如果你停下来，把它当成一个语法型问句，你对自己说，“哈，那是个很好的问题，不是吗“,因为，当然，世界上最简单的事,就是将舞者和舞蹈分开。

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