The key to finding happiness is to understand that happiness is a choice rather than the result of an experience.

得到幸福的关键就在于要懂得幸福是一种选择，而不是经历的结果。

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But they have usually been attributed to a failure to anticipate an inflationary surge, rather than the result of a deliberate decision.

但这通常要归功于他们对通胀走势判断失误，而不是有意为之。

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Thus the author confirmed that the identical relations express the same original relations of them rather than the result of borrowing or influence with each other.

认为这种一样关系不是借用或相互影响的结果，而是同源关系的反映。

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They said it was effectively a punishment rather than the result of pursuing licensing objectives.

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Since that reform also indexes pensions to inflation rather than wages, the result, say the unions is to erode pensioners' purchasing power and so their standard of living.

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Nonetheless, on August 18, before the stock market went completely haywire, Netscape investors got some good news when the company posted a break-even result rather than the two- cents-a-share loss most analysts had been expecting.

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