Does not success or failure hinge on this?

成败之机，其在斯乎？

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Mitigated success, not success on mitigation.

稍有成功，但没有在减排问题上取得成功。

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Narrator Nick Carraway is witness to the glitz that ultimately reflects emptiness, not success.

叙述者尼克·卡拉韦见证了浮华最终反映的是空虚，不是成功。

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A third area is building data systems that not only measure student success, but also inform teachers how to improve.

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Positive emotions not only contribute to our success, they don't just contribute to our feeling good, they also contribute to our wellbeing.

积极情绪不仅有助成功，不仅能让我们感觉好，还有助我们获得幸福。

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And the claim that psychoanalysis proves itself by being- by its tremendous success in curing mental illness is also almost certainly not true.

对于精神分析,通过在治疗心理疾病方面获得的巨大成功,证明了其理论的正确性,这个观点当然也是不对的。

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Intent is the pivotal question, not success, and intent is really really REALLY hard to prove.

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Indeed, the industry has been able to extract higher revenues and reduce its costs because it showed distress, not success.

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The movie, however, profits from his strollings, for what intrigues Ceylan is not success, or good companionship, but the chilly drift of melancholia.

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