Now a Bill is before Congress which is attempting to "do something". And yet what has happened?

现在正有一份议案摆在国会面前，试图“做些什么”；然而发生了什么？

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The hallmark of depression and anxiety is catastrophizing-worrying about something that hasn't happened yet and might not happen at all.

沮丧和焦虑的特点是灾难化——担心某些还未发生的和根本不可能发生的事。

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Something similar happened to the region's herring population, which took three years to crash after the Alaska spill and hasn't recovered yet.

类似的情况在青鱼的数量上也体现了出来，阿拉斯加原油泄漏花了三年的时间才溶解，然而该海区尚未恢复。

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And yet something serious has happened.

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And existing antitrust laws can always be brought to bear if any company establishes and then abuses a dominant position in, say, mobile-phone operating systems or advertising platforms something that has not happened yet.

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And yet I find myself identifying as the best such decision of the year something that has only just happened.

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