Volunteer to take on tasks or projects that are a stretch for you. You'll learn you can do more than you thought you could and so will others.

自动承担那些能拓展你的能力的项目或工程。你会发现你比想象的愈加能干，这是一条放之四海而皆准的真理。

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Because committing to something that you can't back out of seems to me like a step that you'd want to take even more carefully than something you thought you could reverse.

相对于你认为你可以逆转的东西，做一件不能退出的事情在我看来你就应该更加谨慎。

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ALLEN: "Well, we are still in show business." BENNY: "Yes,and we thought you could book us."

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They thought, for example, if you could do something with one element, if you looked at an element very close to it, it would be similar enough that you could maybe replace it with that.

他们认为，比如，用一种元素可以做的，用它邻近的元素，代替它的位置,也应该能做到。

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You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

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You thought you could break up my marriage and move in, but you were wrong.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

So you probably thought you could escape this by coming to this dinner.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

"If after watching the last video you thought you could still get out and travel, well you haven't seen anything yet!"

CNN: 'Truly a historic blizzard,' weather service says