Have you noticed people with habits that regularly detract from their happiness? Or boost their happiness?

有注意到别人有经常在削减(或提高)自己快乐的习惯吗？

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Some people like to interpret the policy targets for the real estate market vaguely as "restraint" or "boost".

有的人喜欢把房地产市场的政策目标模糊地理解为“打压”或者“刺激”。

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The election will help shape Iraq's immediate future, either allowing sectarian and ethnic divides to deepen or giving more nationalist forces a boost.

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If this was tetanus, you got this tetanus vaccine when you were young; you get a boost every five or ten years because your antibody levels are starting to fall.

以破伤风为例,小时候,你接种过破伤风的疫苗,每隔五年或十年要再接种一次,这是因为体内的抗体浓度会下降

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You could probably find some antigens that don't follow exactly this behavior, but in general, this is the kind of behavior you would see on first exposure to an antigen or vaccine, called the primary exposure, and on subsequent exposure to an antigen or vaccine called the boost.

可能你也会发现,一些抗原并不完全遵循这种模式,但通常来说,在你首次接触一种抗原或疫苗时,都能观察到这种模式,它被称为初次免疫,而接下来的,再次接触抗原或是疫苗被称为增强免疫

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The Nest has an outer ring that you can rotate to either lower or boost the temperature.

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Of course, many businesses already have their staff and are simply looking to improve or boost productivity.

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That situation leaves the Street with two options: reduce ratings, or boost targets.

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