The "don'ts" can be self-fulfilling because your mind responds to pictures.

这种“不能”之所以会自行实现，是因为你的大脑响应这些“不能”的画面。

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For example, infants learn that when they cry or smile someone responds to them.

例如，幼儿知道当他们哭泣或微笑时，有人会回应他们。

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The woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.

面对蛇的询问，女人回答说，果树绝对不能吃，甚至连碰都不行，否则就会死。

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David Easterbrook is curator of the "Africa Responds to Obama" collection at the Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.

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And the woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.

面对蛇的询问，女人回答说,智慧果实绝对不能吃，甚至连碰都不行。

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Now the Lady responds to what we can think of as his aristocratic debauchery with an economic theory of her own, and we haven't looked at that yet.

这位女士以我们可以想到的方式做出回应,由于对她提出的图利的理论和他本身的贵族气息的放荡，这一点我们还没有读到。

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An international team of scientists has demonstrated the first soap that responds to magnets.

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He analyses the political concepts the public responds to and helps politicians script their approach.

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And a student who responds to opposing views with either does not belong at a university.

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