The researchers found that our brains facilitate decision-making by stopping us from focusing too much on minor past details.

研究人员发现，我们的大脑通过阻止我们过分关注过去的小细节来帮助我们做出决策。

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After a while, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string is stopping the kite from flying higher."

过了一会儿，儿子说：“爸爸，好像是线阻止了风筝飞得更高。”

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The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky."

父亲解释说：“线不是阻止风筝飞得更高，而是帮助它在空中停留。”

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The race called for flying without stopping from Los Angeles in the western state of California, to the city of Chicago, in the middle western state of Illinois.

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You've heard about RNA interference, for example, and that is the process of stopping this, to stop a gene from being expressed.

比如说,你们听说过的RNA干扰,就是一种阻止,基因表达的手段

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The study showed that fruit on the tree reduces the next bloom by stopping buds from appearing.

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Also, America intervened in two world wars when our vital interests were at stake -- stopping Germany from conquering Western Europe in 1917 and stopping Japan and Germany from conquering the world in 1941.

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Single people, nobody is stopping you from buying the racetrack-friendly Lotus Elise you lust after.

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Is fear of being ridiculed stopping us from broadcasting our opinions across the Web?

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