So it seems you can bolster resistance to temptation by thinking abstractly about the goal you want to obtain because it causes your mind to automatically associate temptations with negativity.

因此似乎是通过对你想要达到的目标做一般性的思考，你就可以提高自己对于诱惑的抵抗力，而其原因就是这种思考会让你自动地就将诱惑与消极性联系起来。

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And there was resistance to the temptation in Washington to turn these things into political talking points, but allow them instead to be more organic and focused on the substance -- and not just on fiscal issues, as I said, but immigration reform, gun violence, energy independence, education -- the whole range of issues that are the President's priorities and they also happen to be the American people's priorities.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We must convey this message of resistance and this lesson in humanity, in all its strength and complexity, against the temptation to forget or to take misleading shortcuts due to the passage of time.

UNESCO: UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013