The Secret? These ideas might act as spurs to action, but without the action itself, they don’t do much.

《吸引力法则》，《秘密》这些想法可能是行动的刺激品，但没有行动本身，它们本身没有意义。

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And though regret can be painful, a life without regret isn't only near impossible, it would lack a fundamental emotion that spurs people to avoid future mistakes.

虽然说追悔让人痛苦，但是没有后悔的人生不仅近乎不可能，这样的人生还会使人缺乏一种避免自己未来犯错的基本情绪。

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The Spurs without Tim Duncan?

或者没有蒂姆·邓肯的马刺？

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But without the twin spurs of competition and the profit motive there is no telling how big subsidies should be.

ECONOMIST: The end of the tunnel

Seemingly without breaking sweat, Spurs' second goal arrived on the half-hour mark when Jenas found Keane in space on the left-hand side of the area and he ran on to slot home past the on-rushing goalkeeper.

BBC: Robbie Keane scores Tottenham's second goal

Spurs are already without the services of centre-backs Michael Dawson and Jonathan Woodgate with Achilles and groin injuries respectively.

BBC: Spurs suffer Modric injury blow