The pull of the fantasy future, but also the push of the unpleasant present, the nothing that is happening and will continue to happen unless you change.

要想象未来的拉力，也要不满现状的推力。 除非你改变，不然，就会出现“虚无”，还将持续。

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It is the picture itself that is the problem; so small, so dull. It's a nothing, really.

是这张图片本身的问题，那么小，那么乏味。它没什么价值，真的。

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The creative approach begins with the proposition that nothing is as it appears.

创造性的方法始于这样一个命题：没有什么是表面上的那样。

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"One of the really frustrating things for patients with fibromyalgia is that there's nothing to measure in labs or in X-rays.

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This is The Life You Can Save, which essentially gives the lie to the idea that there is nothing I can do.

你可以拯救的生命》,这本书彻底地推翻了那种,“我什么都帮不上“的想法。

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Wow" is Dean's word. "Wow" is the kind of word that means nothing, but it suggests the immediacy of Dean's engagement.

哇是迪恩的话，哇这个词可以是没有意义的，但它表示了迪恩的直接参与。

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"There is absolutely nothing relevant to the inquiry, nothing there that is the property of Rebekah, " Mr. Wilson said at the time.

WSJ: U.K. Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks, Husband in Phone-Hacking Probe

You know, the stuff that we think is everything is really nothing, and the stuff that's nothing is really everything.

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The two allegations are inextricably intermingled, and if you conclude, as you should, that there's no evidence to support the underlying allegation -- that the underlying offense is based on nothing but pure conjecture, you will conclude that the perjury charge is nothing more than an attempt to get two bites at the same apple.

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