It can be evidenced by the fact that we have learnt to deny something habitually and therefore lost a lot of things.

人就是这样一种奇怪的动物，拥有的时候厌倦，失去回首的时候才酸痛。

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Sometimes it is not the world that abandons us, but we who abandon the world. It can be evidenced by the fact that we have learnt to deny something habitually and therefore lost a lot of things.

有时不是世界抛弃了我们，是我们自己先抛弃了世界，因为我们学会了习惯性的否定，习惯性的抵制而让许多的东西擦肩而过。

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To reduce the attractiveness of something — and hence the amount of willpower required to deny yourself it — move the choice further away.

去减少某事的吸引力——这样可减少否定你自己需要的意志力的数量——进一步去除选择。

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But, Americans have always tended to deny that something could be learned from the rest of the world, or that it even exists.

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Given cravings' universal nature, experts agree that "if you deny all cravings, something's going to backfire, " says Wansink.

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He said, "I can neither confirm or deny, " and he hung up so we knew we were on to something.

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