Moods should be distinguished from emotions which are usually more intense, related to specific circumstances, and often conscious.

心情应该与情感区分开来，情感通常更强烈，与特定的情形有关，而且往往是有意识的。

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Psychologist Dianne Tice asked more than 400 men and women about their strategies for escaping foul moods.

心理学家 Dianne Tice 询问了400多名男性和女性逃避恶劣情绪的策略。

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Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, the leader of the study, explained that bad moods would make people more thoughtful.

这项研究的负责人西尔维亚·诺布洛赫-维斯特维克解释说，坏心情会让人有更多思考。

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Jennifer Jason Leigh, in one of her more somnambulant moods, plays an interactive-game designer named Allegra, who is attacked while showing off her new creation, eXistenZ.

NEWYORKER: Existenz

These are delivered, and sometimes disguised, with great suppleness, especially by Neill, but they work far better in rushes of wrath and dissent than in the more lyrical moods, and the whole conceit will strike you as either dazzling or vacantly precious, according to taste.

NEWYORKER: Yes

Modern liberalism is more about evoking moods and feelings.

FORBES: Dean's Assault On Free Speech