Unemployment is building up into a social time bomb across the industrialized world.

失业正成为工业化社会中的一种社会性潜在破坏因素。

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A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as cleaning up the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would try to top it with another favor.

几年前，我们开始了这种“人情战”，我们中的一个人会为另一个人做一些好事，比如清理车道或搭建棚子，下次另一个人就会试图用另一个人情来顶上。

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If you find the pressure building up, find some time for yourself to do something that you really enjoy.

一旦你感受到了压力，你应该给自己一点时间做自己真正喜欢的事情。

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"This has been building up for some time but the tipping point was on Friday when the Ellory controversy broke, " he said.

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We do seem to have a media circus building up with momentum every time we come to a World Cup, it's a little bit earlier this year than normal.

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In fact, you do not even need to be online to be contributing: your strings of guesses are memorised, and other players may be playing against a phantom "you" - or it might even be a phantom "them" against a phantom "you", building up matches all the time.

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