We learn to avoid self-pity.

我们要学会避免自怜。

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Social science can also teach politicians how to avoid our collective capacity for self-destructive behaviour.

社会科学还可以教会政治家如何避免我们集体的自我毁灭行为。

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Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

在任何情况下，只需做最好的你，你会避免自我判断，自我虐待和遗憾。

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The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.

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The threat of long prison sentences creates an all-or-nothing situation in which top executives refuse to testify in order to avoid self-incrimination.

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Elsewhere, though, the need to preserve social cohesion, parroted by European politicians from left and right, has become a self-defeating excuse to avoid reform.

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