The illustration that I use a lot is that we view life like a little marionette puppet, where you have these strings that run down to it, and we think that we are the puppet-master of our life.

我经常应用的这种错觉就是我们把生活看成是一个牵线木偶，有一些线绳牵制着它，我们以为我们是这个木偶的操控者。

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Into the audience hall by the fathomless abyss where swells up the music of toneless strings I shall take this harp of my life.

我要拿起我的生命的弦琴，进入无底深渊旁边，那座涌出无调的乐音的广厅。

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The author pointed out that tubing anchor can not only control the tubing flex , but also improves force status , prolong the using life of tubing strings .

指出油管锚（油管张力锚除外）不仅可以控制管柱的伸缩，而且可以改善管柱的受力状况，延长油管的使用寿命。

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Earlier this week, NTP co-founder Donald Stout told the press that RIM could avoid that fate if it makes one giant payment, no strings attached, for 5.7% of RIM's projected U.S. sales through the life of the contested patents, which expire in 2012.

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