The insight is an intuitive one—threatening someone to convince him not to attack you is much more likely to work than threatening him in order to make him give up something he cares about.

这是一种非常直观的感受—与其威逼某人让他放弃他所在乎的东西，还不如威慑他让他不要攻击你，这似乎会是更有效的方法。

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They will go out to win and we want to attack. You never know what can happen in this type of game.

这种类型的比赛，你永远无法预测到结果，我们必须要全力以赴。

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I cannot advise you." Later in the meeting, Toombs urged Davis not to attack the fort.

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So, if you want to attack urban air quality, this is probably moving in the wrong direction, OK?

所以如果你想攻击都市的空气质量，这可能是一个错误的方向，对吗？

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Also, shows you something about the challenge of it, because we are susceptible to attack from lots of different kinds of microorganisms.

同样也向你们展示这其中的一些挑战,因为我们也容易受到,各类微生物感染的危害

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Do your homework, do your research, and when you come up with the next great Facebook, know that everyone is going to attack you, you just have to turn a blind eye.

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But if you consistently reduce scientific research to motive and bias in order to attack your opponents, you leave yourself obnoxious to the same attack.

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