Since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets—they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.

由于这些信息有一个目的——引诱我们打开钱包——它们使得幸福这一概念看起来不可靠。

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I started practicing the various practical steps mentioned by the author in the book, and began to revolt against the very idea of being too busy.

我开始练习作者在书中提到的各种实践步骤，并开始反对那些过于忙碌的想法。

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Both the hand movements and the very idea of communicating without speaking attracted me.

手的动作和不用说话就能交流的想法都吸引了我。

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"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

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And it's possible that the very idea of a Puritan poet presented Milton with what may have felt like an insoluble conflict.

成为清教徒诗人的想法可能,让弥尔顿感到一些不可调和的冲突。

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In this pamphlet, this prose treatise, Milton is looking back at this exuberant affection for the very idea of chastity that he had held in his youth.

在这个小册子散文论文中，弥尔顿正在回顾这个贞操观点,对年轻人产生的非凡影响。

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They toy with the very idea of food how it is prepared, packaged, filigreed, tricked up, dramatized.

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The first barrier Sullivan pointed to was the very idea of machine data itself.

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The very idea of reusing egg boxes or olive jars would be considered appalling.

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