People with body dysmorphic disorder spend at least an hour a day, sometimes much longer, thinking about that imperfection.

身体畸形恐惧症的人们一天至少会花一个小时，有时甚至更长的时间来思考他们的瑕疵。

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Unless solutions are found soon for these complex problems, the "Queen of the Adriatic," as Venice is sometimes called, will not be able to sit on her watery throne for very much longer.

除非能尽快解决这些复杂的问题，否则这座被称为“亚得里亚海皇后”的威尼斯城，不用多久就难保它的水上宝座了。

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Sometimes the return from giving happens very quickly as in the true story above. Other times, it takes much longer.

有时候回报可能没有上面的故事中的那样快，也有时候可能更慢些。

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Parents, meanwhile, are finding themselves stuck caring for children, sometimes for much longer than they planned, with no exit plan in sight often damaging their own financial health and retirement savings.

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But sometimes memories take much longer to fade.

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"Previous experiments have indicated that when you select for a reduction in aggressiveness, you obviously get a tamer animal but you also get an animal that retains juvenile characteristics much longer during development, sometimes into adulthood, " said Dr Axelsson.

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