Happiness is not a point of future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

幸福不是未来的某个节点，也不是过去的某个时刻，而是能够融入到当下的一种心境。

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Wellness may perhaps best be viewed not as a state that people can achieve, but as an ideal that people can strive for.

也许最好不要把健康看作是一种可以实现的状态，而是一种可以为之奋斗的理想状态。

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If you can make 100 tons of the drug, but it costs $100,000 a gram that might not be a useful drug because nobody could afford to use it.

如果你能制造一百吨这种药物，但每克的成本是十万美元，这药可能就没什么用，因为没人买得起它。

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They had been interested in thorium -- a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.

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Her aim is to get along in a world that is dominated by shifting forces that can be registered and reacted to by poetry, but not explained.

她的目的是通过诗歌所能记录，达到却不能解释的,变幻莫测的力量,来和被统治的世界相处。

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Now we can do more than that if we're being nerdy, but I'm not going to be this nerdy today.

如果我们再深究还能获得更多信息,不过今天就算了吧

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Governments must be able to show that they are doing everything that is reasonable to protect citizens from threats, but they must be candid in admitting that not all risks can be eliminated without doing more harm than good and eroding the very values they are seeking to defend.

ECONOMIST: Weighing safety against liberty

But you can be sure that a negative one will not be taken as reason for despair.

ECONOMIST: Space exploration

The experiment, in other words, had shown that paralysis can be reversed, but not in a way that is particularly useful.

ECONOMIST: An experiment on rats brings hope to the paralysed