我认识一些人，他们在生活中几乎没有什么真正的优势，但他们竭力达到了非凡的成功，他们琢磨出如何利用自己之所拥有的，而不是停顿在自己没有的东西上。

I know people who've had very few real advantages in life and yet they managed to become giant successes. They figured out how to use what they had not to dwell in what they didn't have.

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政客们都竭力紧缩支出，不仅希望使此地区之外的债权人减轻忧虑，同时也为了达到玛斯特理赫特条约所规定的百分之三的赤字这一目标，从而尽快采用欧元(爱沙尼亚希望在2011年前)。

Politicians are pushing through spending cuts, not only to reassure external lenders, but also to meet the Maastricht deficit target of 3% of GDP so as to adopt the euro soon (by 2011, Estonia hopes).

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例如，中东和北非地区的水资源用量已达到该地区总量的80%，世界银行新发布的一份报告——《竭力解决缺水问题》表示。

The Middle East and North Africa, for instance, already USES 80 percent of the water that falls in the region, according to a new World Bank report, "Making the Most of Scarcity."

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