Tell yourself "Everyone's going to laugh at me" or "I'm going to fail" and your self-confidence withers.

告诉自己“所有的人都会笑话我”或“我要失败了”，你的自信心就会枯萎。

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Or we might be afraid we're going to fail, or look ignorant or stupid.

也许，我们或担心失败，或担心自己看上去显得无知、愚蠢。

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For some cooking is intimidating and they convince themselves that they will burn it all or other wise fail miserably even before they've thought of what they're going to make.

对有些人来说，烹饪让他们望而生畏，他们甚至在考虑做什么饭之前，就认为自己一定会把食物烧焦或者以惨遭失败告终。

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In a general crisis, it doesn't matter whether banks are big or small, government isn't going to let them fail for want of liquidity.

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Once Kennedy committed the money, succeed or fail, everybody knew it was going to be the Next Big Thing for a decade, and dominate technology.

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The markets panicked because they could not determine who was going to fail next, how the failure would be handled or whether anyone was in charge.

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