而患者则是以天价处方药的形式，为每一支派发的钢笔、每一张免费的戏票、每一次吃的牛排晚餐买单。

And patients are the ones who pay—in the form of sky-rocketing prescription prices—for every pen that's handed out, every free theatre ticket, and every steak dinner eaten.

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一些群体会通过用指关节敲树枝的方式来互相博取关注，而另一些群体则是以大声撕咬叶子来吸引注意力。

Some groups would get each other's attention by rapping branches with their knuckles, while others did it by loudly ripping leaves with their teeth.

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近忧则是以上都可能延缓针对经济降温的举措。

The immediate worry is that all this could water down or delay the measures needed to cool an overheating economy.

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We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

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