If nothing else showing that you've tried to solve the problem yourself before you take it further, make it clear that you're not just a complainer.

在你采取进一步措施之前，先表现出你已经尝试过自己解决问题，向人表明你不是一个只会抱怨的人。

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If nothing else, showing that you've tried to solve the problem yourself before you take it farther makes it dear that you're not just a complainer.

如果没有其他的事情，在你进一步解决问题之前，表现出你已经尝试过自己解决问题，这会让人觉得你不是一个爱抱怨的人。

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If you want to remember to take a medication with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table—don't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.

如果你想在午餐时记得吃药，把药瓶放在厨房的桌子上——不要把它放在药箱里，并给自己写一张纸条，放在口袋里。

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It does not take one to know one; to understand the truths about the French, you do not yourself need to be French.

这不需要同类互知,你不需要是法国人,才能了解法国人

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You told me that you've written plays by yourself. How long did it take you to finish them?

你告诉我你自己写剧本。写完一个剧本要多久呢？

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You don't want--you know that you'd like to take money away from yourself in the high-outcome years and give it to yourself in the low-income years.

你不想...你知道,你想在高收入的年份中,拿出一点钱,给你自己低收入的年份

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Don't take it hard on yourself.

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Or you can take the do-it-yourself route and advertise on one of the many websites that cater to vacation-rental owners.

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This is the way large web operations such as Google and Facebook manage Internet-scale data processing, although the Web players tend to take a do-it-yourself approach based on internally developed or open-source software.

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