Therefore, I only grow some flowers and plants that are tough and of great self-survival.

因此，我只养些好种易活、自己会奋斗的花草。

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The prime motive of the id is self-survival, pursuing whatever necessary to accomplish that goal.

本我的主要动机是自我生存，即采用一切必要手段去达到那个目标。

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This subconscious need for "self-survival" is exactly what forces it to helps you keep your promise like a "helpful parent".

这种潜意识需要“自我存在”来强迫它帮你保持你的承诺就像是一个“帮助家长”。

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"We've been busy, " concurs Bill Mathews , a former Navy SEAL and executive vice president at Blackwater , a North Carolina-based firm that offers self-defense, survival and firearms training for the U.S. government and has about 2, 000 personnel stationed throughout the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The companies, in survival mode and out of pure self-interest, jump at the chance, as even a weak government case can destroy them.

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The plotting seems dangerously self-interested, being concerned almost exclusively with the survival of the mutants themselves, and, behind the succulent effects, the tone is oddly hectoring, instructing us to behave liberally toward these nice boys and girls whose only quirk is the ability to create thunderstorms or hurl fire.

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