There is a widespread belief that increasing wealth encourages people to live farther out where cars are the only viable transport.

人们普遍认为，财富的增加促使人们住得更远，汽车则成为唯一可用的交通工具。

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The only way to break this cycle and produce unprecedented results is to establish a belief about your future that is not anchored in the past.

要想打破这个圈子，收获一个空前的好结局，唯一的一条路就是建立一个不局限于过去而是有关你未来的信仰。

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And after Gibson's recent rants, nobody's going to believe he's a hero anymore - there's only so far that belief can be suspended.

再加上吉普森最近的胡言乱语，没人愿意再相信他是个英雄了-至少目前人们停止相信这个了。

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It was a belief in a hierarchical conception of not only society, but of people.

这就是一种不仅对于社会,也关于人类自身的等级观念

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Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

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So very similar idea, but the only thing is, I'm slightly abusing notation here by saying that my payoff depends on my strategy and a belief, but what I really mean is my expected payoff.

这和以前的概念差不多,唯一的不同,就是我这里稍微用了一些数学符号,来表述策略带来的收益与所持信念有关,这里的收益指的是预期收益

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Henry had got selection and motivation spot on and it was only a lack of belief in the final quarter - coupled with a streaker who halted play at the most inopportune of moments - that denied Wales a famous victory.

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Research carried out in the same month by a secularist foundation suggested three-quarters of people who describe themselves as Christian in Britain displayed only a low level of belief and practice of the religion.

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And I fervently hope, that as the years go on, people stop cherry-picking science to bolster their belief that only a few people are.

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