设定我们能够达到的目标，降低期望，是否更好？

Is it best to have low expectations and to set goals we are sure of achieving?

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我们是否要降低期望，降低生活水平？

Do we have to lower our expectation and our standard of living?

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设定我们能够达到的目标，降低期望，是否更好？

Is it best to have low expectations and to setgoals we are sure of achieving?

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And if we lower our expectations, we lower our stress levels and we will enjoy life more.

如果能降低期望，降低压力水平，我们会更享受生活。

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Slightly happy if you lower your levels of expectations, but not in the long term.

降低期望水平会略微快乐些，但从长远来说行不通。

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They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

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