Despite the fact that few Americans self-claim to be puritans as their fore-fathers did before, the deeply-rooted Puritanism can never be neglected even in their daily behavior.

虽然很少有美国人像父辈一样自诩为清教徒，但是即使在他们的日常行为中，清教传统依然根深蒂固，不可忽视。

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Psychologists claim that work gives people an identity; through participation in work, they get a sense of self and individualism.

心理学家们认为，工作赋予人们以身份；通过参与工作，他们得到一种自我和个体的感觉。

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We cannot accept any librarian’s claim of professionalism without objective evidence because there is an inherent self-interest laying in that claim.

没有客观证据可以让我们承认图书馆员的专业性，他们的主张中存在着一种固有的利己主义。

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And psychologists have coined a term, talk about self-fulfilling prophesies, and the claim here more specifically is what's known as "the Pygmalion effect."

心理学家造了一个新术语，来讨论这种自我实现的预言，准确来说这个现象就是,皮格马利翁效应“

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Police had declined to arrest him that night, saying there wasn't enough evidence to refute his self-defense claim.

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"If you're the first aggressor, if you are pursuing, you cannot avail yourself of this self-defense claim, " she said.

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First, while the prosecution was unconvinced by Zimmerman's self-defense claim, he is still entitled to present it to the jury at trial.

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