Professor Tindle says the study did not confirm whether optimism leads to healthier choices, or if it actually affects a person's physical health.

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It's really, in a sense, the physical image is of rain; it's raining, so it's leaking all over it.

这在某种意义上确实是，下雨的一种具体的描述;,因为在下雨，所以天空像是在漏水。

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Whatever the number two is, it's something that our mind can grasp but isn't actually in the physical world.

不管数字2是什么,它是心灵可以掌握的东西,而在物质世界中却不存在

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Overall, it's a logical system that stays faithful to how proper cameras work, and it's essential for creative control, but compared to physical dials it's still very tricky to hit good manual settings quickly or in response to changing conditions -- not least because the preview of the shot is obscured by all the dials and, well, there's just so much tapping.

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It's a physical healing practice that promotes calmness and a sense of connection with the world, she says.

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But what I was intending more to talk about was how we deal with the darker sides of our nature, and the fact that we all have tremendously destructive power in our hands, whether it's by physical violence or words against somebody or manipulating something.

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