Even checking email can become a compulsive behavior that's hard to stop.

甚至查收电子邮件也能变成一种难以抑制的强迫行为。

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When cutting becomes a compulsive behavior, it can seem impossible to stop.

当切割成为强迫行为，它似乎不可能停止。

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What you can do, just once, is to make a polite request for another to stop the behavior that you find frustrating, annoying or disturbing.

我们所能做的只是礼貌地请对方不要再做出我们认为会使我们泄气、厌烦或者不安的行为。

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That means when animals -- or humans -- are rewarded randomly for a particular behavior, it's harder to get them to stop the behavior than if they had been rewarded consistently for the same behavior.

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The industry shares a database to help identify illegal behavior, not only to help the government stop criminals but also to mitigate fraud losses, which run into billions.

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Next, you can choose to allow the behavior to continue unchecked and hope that it will eventually stop, or, you can take a proactive approach and ask to meet with this person.

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