然而市场的持续疲软，冒着自我消耗的风险。

The market's persistent weakness, however, runs the risk of feeding on itself.

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然而，往管道内注入少量的噬菌体，就可以清理整个管道系统，因为噬菌体在消耗生物膜的同时可以自我复制。

A small injection of phages into a water pipe, however, could clean an entire system, with the phages replicating themselves as they consume the biofilm.

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心理学上的很多研究都支持“自我损耗”的概念，即必须抑制自己消耗你的脑力并使得对其他事运用自制更加困难。

A lot of research in psychology has supported the concept of "ego depletion" — that having to restrain yourself wears out your brain and makes it harder to exert self-control over something else.

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