A brief act of kindness brings an unexpected insight. I was shopping at a department store and had just boarded the down escalator when I noticed a woman standing to the side.

一次简单的善意帮助却带来了出乎意料的领悟。我到一家百货商店买东西，就在我踏上自动扶梯刚要下楼时，突然注意到扶梯边站着一位妇女。

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[In one experiment, researchers] found that twice as many mall shoppers who had just ridden an up escalator contributed to the Salvation Army than shoppers who had just ridden the down escalator.

“研究人员在一次实验中发现，商场购物者中，乘扶梯而上的人对“救世军”进行的捐助，是那些乘扶梯而下的人的两倍。

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on the tube as well, it's really nice to kind of come down the escalator

在地铁上也一样，真的很美好的是，当你乘坐自动扶梯时，

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Hopefully that will get Chesapeake Energy off the down escalator and onto the up side.

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After crawling underground, they walk down an escalator.

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Baroness Grey-Thompson would be the first to admit that while she can leave people far behind as she powers down the track, she still cannot get down an escalator to board an inaccessible tube train, and still needs the public's help to do what they regard as very ordinary things.

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