They wanted to push research on fear one step further – from understanding how we passively react to fear, through actively avoiding it, to actually confronting it.

这两位科学家希望将关于恐惧的研究推进一步：从了解人们如何被动地对恐惧做出反应，到通过积极规避而实际面对恐惧。

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People who get things finished (as opposed to people who just get things started) have mastered the ability to push through the things they hate doing, to work on the things they love.

完成工作的人（相对于仅仅开始工作的人）拥有通过做自己不喜欢的事情的能力，继而可以做他们喜欢的事情。

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Most conservative bloggers see border enforcement as the priority, an issue they say the president can enforce on his own without having to push a bill through Congress.

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If investors feel trodden on and lack confidence in the markets, aided by lackluster investment performance, they might help him push those reforms through.

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