Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.

皮尔斯·斯蒂尔将拖延症定义为，出于自愿地推迟某事，尽管你知道这样的耽搁会让你更加难受。

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As Piers Steel makes clear in 4 temporal motivation theory and Dan Gilbert shows in his work on affective forecasting, we are not merely irrational but predictably so.

根据皮尔斯·斯蒂尔的时间动机理论以及丹·吉尔伯特有关情感预测的著作，我们不仅对当下的事物具有非理性，也倾向于非理性。

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Apply to the hull and ballast water warehouses, piers steel piles, mines steel supports, water pipes, and the mining industry cooling water pipe wall with anti-corrosion coating.

适用于船底、载水仓、头钢桩、井钢铁支架、来水管道，以及工矿企业冷却水管道的外壁防腐蚀涂装用。

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Its titan piers grip ocean floor, Its great steel arms link shore with shore, Its towers pierce the sky.

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Its brawny design including double-layer cinder-block walls reinforced by heavy duty steel bars and cement piers that plunge 30 feet into the ground should allow it to withstand winds up to 200 mph.

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