Mentally simulating another person’s efforts to use self-control may trick your brain’s “fuel gauge” into mistakenly thinking that your own resources have been depleted, a new study suggests.

一项新的研究表明，在心里模仿别人那样努力、自律会欺骗你的大脑的“燃料余量表”，使它错误地认为你自己的资源已经耗尽。

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Within a month, every fuel tank would be dry, all our gauge needles would point to "e," and the roads, rails and skies would be virtually empty.

一个月内，每个油桶都会用干，我们车上的指针都跳到E，到那时公路、铁路和天空会空荡荡的。

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A worker fixed their car and added 2 gallons of fuel to their car by using a gauge.

一名工人修好了他们的车子，又用一个量表给车加了两加仑的汽油。

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But since at least May, the margin between crude and wholesale gas prices has increasingly shrunk, according to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report, a daily updated indicator of retail gasoline prices.

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His dashboard fuel gauge filled with images of intertwining green foliage, a symbolic representation of the environmental benefits we were apparently dispensing from the tailpipe as we aimlessly drove around.

WSJ: The Problem With Going Green by David Owen