We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight.

我们生活在一个我称之为“外向理想型”的价值体系中——一个无处不在的信念，即理想的自我是善于交际的，在聚光灯下感到舒适的。

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When you feel stressed, or you want to become better, you may read some books for advice. We call those self-help books.

当你感到焦虑时，或者你想变得更好时，你可以阅读一些书籍寻找建议。我们称这些为励志书。

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Unlike a human driver, a self-driving car won't be influenced by a phone call, the radio or something outside the window.

自动驾驶汽车不同于人类司机，前者不会受电话、广播或窗外东西的影响。

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Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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Critics of self-regulation call it a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.

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From my experience, there are a few good ways to do that: make online self-service links prominent on your website and always offer them anywhere you provide your customer support number, integrate online help throughout key processes, promote Web and self-service resources in telephone hold messages, let call center agents notify customers of self-service options, and reply to email questions with the link to self-service content to re-enforce self-service availability.

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Quiet-car "vigilantes, " as some railroad workers call the self-styled enforcers, step in.

WSJ: Shhh! 'Quiet Cars' Turn Commuters Into Librarians