Businessmen are frantically trying to shake off the bad habits learned under six decades of a protected economy.

商人们拼命想摆脱60年来在保护经济下所养成的这些坏习惯。

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We use them to fight off the bad bacteria.

我们用它们抗击对我们有害的细菌。

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Laughter truly is one of the best medicines for fighting off the bad-weather blues, says Scott Bea, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

克利夫兰医疗中心的心理学家Scott Bea表示，欢笑的确是抵抗恶劣天气带来的坏心情的最佳良药。

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She says writers in Tunisia are not as bad off as the syndicate believes.

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But if the contents get bad enough, then you'd be better off dead.

但是如果生活内容极为糟糕，那么你死了更好。

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But a combination of immaturity and bad ski waxing left them off the podium.

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So far, stocks of "consumer discretionary" companies have mostly shrugged off the bad news.

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But Kingdom shares appeared to merely shrug off the bad news from across the Atlantic.

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He showed in 2002 that feeding hamsters nontoxic bacteria was 90% effective at holding off the bad C. difficile strains.

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