Whether you get lost in cyberspace, over shop, watch too much TV, gossip, bite your nails, daydream excessively, procrastinate or over-exercise, you may be caught in a "soft addiction".

不管你是迷失在网络空间、过度消费、或者看电视时间太久、八卦、咬指甲、成天做白日梦、总是拖延或运动过度，你都很有可能是染上了“软瘾”。

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More recent research suggested that those gains are the same whether you exercise for short periods over five days or longer sessions over two or three days.

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So Klawans argues, and I quote, that "sacrifice involves in part the controlled exercise of complete power over an animal's life and death."

因此克洛文认为，“献祭在某种程度上是一种,掌握动物生死的权力象征“

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But it is also connected to our desires for domination and the desire to exercise tyranny over others.

但它也与我们,对他人的支配欲,及欺压欲有关。

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Their emotions range from professional pride to expressions of unease over the exercise of their formidable power.

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Ordinarily, with nonqualified options, the value of the stock over the exercise price is taxed as salary.

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But Dr Mayur Lakhani, vice-chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, advocates exercise over yoga.

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