A revolution in genetics has poised this as a modern political question about the character of our society: if personalities are hard-wired into our genes, what can governments do to help us?

遗传学的一场革命将这一问题定位为一个有关我们社会特征的现代政治问题：如果性格与我们的基因紧密相连，那么政府能做些什么来帮助我们呢？

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They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions—such as saving more in our pension plans—by changing the default options.

他们认为，政府应该通过改变一些默认选项来说服我们做出更好的决定，比如在我们的养老金计划中存更多的钱。

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I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

我也抵制这样一种观点，即粮食短缺不仅会拖垮个别国家的政府，还会波及全球文明的发展。

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"We cannot have a militarized model of diplomacy and development and expect to be successful in making our case on all these other issues that we engage with governments on."

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Pompey had cleared the Mediterranean of pirates, which is something that our governments can't seem to do.

庞贝清除了地中海的海盗，这点我们政府似乎办不到。

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It's not just municipal governments, but a lot of different aspects of our financial system are going to be touched by a crisis that's spreading from one segment to another.

不仅仅是地方政府,还有很多不同的金融系统领域,都要被影响,危机波及到一个领域又一个领域

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"Our governments are friends and allies, " Mitchell said Sunday after his meeting with Barak.

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We want to make sure that our governments are acting in that same constructive way.

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Our governments have different priorities and our businessmen see no financial value in supporting art.

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