You may be forced to have a first impression from criticism or flattery, but you can then re-evaluate that so it doesn't distract you from your goals.

受到表扬或批评后你可能会被强迫做出本能反应，但是你可以重新评估，这样你就不会分散注意力，使你能全心全意地完成目标。

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According to the contemporary poetics discourse Chinese poetics is generally regarded as an impression or commentary criticism lack of systematic theory.

当代诗学话语中流行的看法认为，中国诗学是一种印象一点评式批评，缺乏理论性与体系性。

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The intensity of Mr Searle's criticism gives the impression that these philosophers' mistakes are even worse than Mr Penrose's even though Mr Penrose's extravagant hypothesis that there are three worlds (the physical, the mental and the mathematical) will seem quite as strange to most readers as anything from Mr Dennett or Mr Chalmers.

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Yet Mr Gandhi, who was arrested (and released) in May while trying to speak up for farmers who had had their land stolen, failed to make much of an impression in recent local elections and is facing the most sustained criticism of his brief career.

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But can Bush attack Gore, even in a response to criticism from the vice president's campaign, without looking hypocritical and conveying an impression to voters that he's just another politician?

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