I know it's time to grow up, stop being hypercritical and just enter the dating pool, with all its cliches and absolute disappointments.

我知道，是时候要长大了，我该停止吹毛求疵，去约会，不管它有多老套，有多让人失望。

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And the advantage that he’s going to have is that now he’s part of a pool of millions of people who are buying it all at the same time, which means they’ve got leverage.

这样做好处是，他现在是在同一时间全部都购买了保险的数百万成员中的一员，这意味着他们都有了优势。

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"All you have to do is show up at the regular time," he says, "and you know there's a good chance you'll end up leaving the pool feeling a little better than when you arrived."

“你所需要做的就是在规定的时间内出现，”他说，“然后你就会知道这是个好机会，一个你能达到离开泳池时感到比来之前的心情好点了的状态的机会。”

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That means they're college eligible. So part of the reason college enrollments are at an all-time high is because the pool of youth that's eligible to go to college is also at an all-time high."

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He also believes, though, that no teams prior to baseball's 1947 racial integration should be considered for all-time greatness, due to the excluded talent pool.

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