If my effects are merely "placebo" I think after 2 years since my stent surgery (ample time for such an effect to wear off) I'd even more confident in the reality of my improvement.

如果我的影响仅仅只是一种安慰的话，我认为在外科手术的2年之后，(足够的时间消除影响)我已经对改善自身更加自信了。

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This uncritical treatment of international election observation, however, ignores a more complicated reality: that monitors can have both positive and negative effects.

然而，此种对国际选举观察不置可否的态度，却忽略了一个更复杂的事实，那就是，监督员的影响既有积极的一面，也有消极的一面。

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Amazingly, the reality distortion field seemed to be effective even if you were acutely aware of it, although the effects would fade after Steve departed.

虽然当Steve离开后，那种“现实扭曲”的影响终会退去，但不可思议的是，即使你清楚地意识到它的存在，却还是会不知不觉地被影响。

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Soon, the effects of this new reality will be hard to ignore, but will it happen in 2013?

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Because the Land of Oz exists outside our reality, even the most ersatz effects -- butterfly trees and flowers that toll like bells -- are fair game.

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This reaction is put down to the ground-breaking special effects which gave the film an unprecedented air of reality.

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