"Face" is the public self-image every member of a society wants to gain for himself.

面子是每个社会成员想为自己争取的公开的自我形象。

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But people who score high on measures of a personality trait called "public self-consciousness" feel that way all the time.

但人们对于自己的个性评价的分数都偏高，这就是“公共自我意识”在起作用。

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It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that allowed him to present himself as something quite different from his public self.

看来他可能已经迷失在幻想世界中，一个容许他去展现与其公开形象截然不同的自我的世界。

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Public officials, the self-employed and those who earn more than about $70,000 a year can choose private insurance.

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AmbassadorFinn is now with the Liechtenstein Institute Self-Determination in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

芬恩大使现在就职于普林斯顿大学的列支敦斯登民族自决研究院,威尔逊公共和国际事务学院。

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So the personal struggle of living in a more unified, faith life in my whole being and bringing that self to the public square.

因此，我致力于,在我的一生中拥有更加统一的信仰生活,并且努力将这个统一的自己融入公共场合。

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Dates were arranged with Tatum O'Neal and Brooke Shields to prove he was all man, rather than the shrinking virgin of his other public self.

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Ms. SUSAN MEDAK (Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre): There was none of that public self-analysis, none of that public scrutiny that we now go through over every major crisis that helps us, as a culture, define the meaning of an experience, to define the meaning of a tragedy.

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This would start with the abolition of zaito, making the public lenders self-financing and combining zaito's myriad special accounts and corporations with the government's general account.

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