Irresolution means reluctance or an inability to make up one's mind.

优柔寡断指犹豫不决，举棋不定不愿或不能决定。

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Look upon this story as a means of limbering up one's senses, one's attitude and one's mind to make them pliable and receptive.

这个故事可以让人的知觉、态度和心智变得柔韧、灵活和敏感，更容易接受新的事物。

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Now this isn't the first time in this course that I've paused over a moment at a crossroads where you can't possibly take both paths but where it is obviously very, very difficult to make up one's mind.

现在是这个课程中第一次,在一个分叉路口停下,我们不可能同时走两条路,但是这也显然是非常难以决定的一个地方。

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