Why bother, especially if you don't feel others are likely to reciprocate?

为什么感到苦恼？特别是如果你感到其他人想要回报的时候。

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Those who feel others expect them to be perfect might also experience declines in health as a result of distancing themselves from other people, and any support from friends and family.

那些感觉别人期望他们完美的人可能会经历健康状况的衰退，因为他们远离其他人，朋友及家人的支持。

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Others are feeling just the way we ourselves would feel in the same situation.

他人现在所感受的，我们自己在相同的情况下也会同样感受到。

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Should others try to change our decision with force, they will smell southern gunpowder and feel the steel of southern swords."

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If you make three people-- or even better, four people a day feel good and they make-- they pay it forward and make four others feel good, and so on and so on.

如果你能让三个人-,甚至四个人度过美妙的一天-,他们会推展，让四人有美好的一天，以此类推。

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It also contributes to others to feel good.

也能让他人感觉好。

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They are the basis of empathy, he suggests, our ability to feel what others feel.

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Yet another study, from 2005, showed that people become even more ethically lax when they feel like others are watching.

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Advances in haptics could allow blind people to feel objects that others can see, or allow visitors to a museum website to feel the shape and texture of an ancient object.

BBC: Promise of touch technologies