自二十世纪后半叶以来，在石油和天然气财富推动下，昔日的采珠人阶层、海滩商贩们和贝都因游牧部落早已改天换地。

Tiny societies of pearl divers, coastal merchants, and nomadic Bedouin were transformed in the last half of the 20th century by oil and natural-gas wealth.

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成功的真正标志，不是我们是否成为让人能勉强度日的永久援助源泉，而是我们是否成为为实现改天换地的变化而进行能力建设的伙伴。

The true sign of success is not whether we're the source of perpetual aid that helps people scrape by, it's whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change.

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我的母性直觉淹没了通常对改变的不情愿，而且一旦我决定我不喜欢那位医生后，我就直言不讳地告诉他的诊所我们要换地方。

My maternal instinct swamped my usual reluctance to make a change, and once I decided that I didn't like the doctor, I had no trouble telling his office that we were going elsewhere.

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And in other words, we are biased to believe that we are terrific.

换句话来说，我们都不公正地认为自己很棒。

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Every now and then, I'd replace the tires on my car.

时不时地，我还换轮子。

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