In the short term, perhaps they are right.

从短期来看，他们或许是对的。

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I see a dangerous trap here: what if you experience something that feels very good in the short term but is actually harmful in the long term?

在这里我看到了一个危险的陷阱：如果你经历某事在短期内感觉很好，但从长期来看实际上是有害的，那该怎么办？

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A bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength, suggests that willpower (意志力) is the ability to make decisions that are better for us in the long term, rather than in the short term.

《意志力：重新发现人类最伟大的力量》这本畅销书表明意志力是做决定的能力，从长远而非短期来看对我们更有益。

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The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

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So in the short term, my future plans are to get some real human resources experience

短期内，我计划做一些人力资源方面的工作，积累经验，

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Well, there I might be factoring in the frontal lobe because much of the short-term memory in particular is in the frontal lobe.

那么,额叶会发挥作用,因为大部分的短期记忆,都由额叶进行处理

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