You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself a number of questions.

你可以通过问自己一些问题来判断自己什么时候越过了顶峰，什么时候处于下坡。

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"I've got to shape up," you might tell yourself, "although I may appear on the airport security screen only as a blue man in Avatar.

你可能对自己说："虽然我出现在机场的安检荧屏上仅是一个《阿凡达》里的蓝人，我也得保持一个好身材，而且，往底裤里藏东西也毫无作用。"

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When some guy hurt you, keep calm and tell yourself that: he might go down on all fours to beg me sometime, and I'll give a could shoulder.

当有男生随意伤害你时，保持淡定，告诉自己有一天我要让他跪着求我，但是我绝对不理他。

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"You think you've got your own computer all to yourself and you can't tell the difference that you're working on something other than a computer and sharing this other resource and doing it at a much lower cost than having your own PC."

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We'd recommend that you to just install iTunes on your phone yourself and tell the carriers to get bent, but the carriers are already working (or already have in some cases) on locking down smartphones so you can't install new applications on them yourself and instead have to do everything through them.

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How about when you tell yourself that you should study or you should go on a diet?

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The break-up text is only this much more noble than ghosting on someone you're dating, letting the silences grow longer and longer until you can tell yourself it was a mutual separation and then scuttle into the night like a cowardly cockroach.

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