Adopting a nature alien to one's own in an effort to copy someone else's success — be it Steve Jobs' or anyone else's — is a mug's game.

做自己天生不擅长的事情，试图复制他人的成功，最终都将是徒劳无获的，不论效仿的对象是史蒂夫·乔布斯还是其他人。

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Behavior is therefore seen as an effort to preserve one's genes in the population.

因此，行为被视为努力在群体中保存一个个体的基因。

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In an otherwise untidy Scottish display in the field, Kyle Coetzer's stunning one-handed effort at long-on in the final over to remove Mark Boucher was an early contender for catch of the tournament.

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If all goes well, it'll be operational in June of 2011, and it's just one aspect of the country's effort to consolidate all emergency alerts into one centralized system.

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Stuart Pearce's men had just one effort on target in the first-half, from Nugent, and could not find any real fluency, even after the break.

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