The two of you were tie-dyed and barefoot and young enough to feel noble while you rubbed the feet of dirty homeless people who came into the school’s free practice clinic.

那时你们两个都穿着扎染的衣服，赤着足，还很年轻，年轻到还觉得给那些来学校参加免费实习治疗的流浪汉按摩臭脚是一件高尚的事。

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The two of you were tie-dyed and barefoot and young enough to feel noble while you rubbed the feet of dirty homeless people who came into the school's free practice clinic.

那时你们两个都穿着扎染的衣服，赤着足，还很年轻，年轻到还觉得给那些来学校参加免费实习治疗的流浪汉按摩臭脚是一件高尚的事。

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While this may seem justified by a noble goal, such "policy by people" tactics rarely work, and often backfire.

尽管这似乎符合一个崇高的目标，但这种“人民的政策”策略很少奏效，而且往往适得其反。

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The great push to serve the hundreds of millions of unbanked people, while noble, is just as experimental as Wall Street's adventures in subprime debt.

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While noble rot concentrates the sugars, allowing the water to evaporate and imparting the grapes with an attractive sweetness, gray rot attacks the grapes, leaving them tasting distinctly rotten and ruining at least part of the crop.

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As for the right to education, while noble in its goal of providing every child a schooling, it may have the unintended effect of shutting down good private schools for some of India's poorest children by mandating infrastructure many won't be able to afford.

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