Before taking this test people were put into either an abstract or concrete mode of thinking.

在接受测验之前，参与者会进行一般性或具体的(concrete)思考。

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They just ignore His rescue; either not caring or mistakenly thinking that they'll make it out somehow.

他们只是不理睬他的解救；要么不理睬要么错误的认为他们终将以某种方式成功。

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I figured what I said either made no sense whatsoever, or perhaps got him thinking about the world in a different way – if only for a moment.

我想无论我说的话有没有意义，至少让他从不同的角度对这个世界进行了思考--哪怕只有一小会。

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There are 100 counties in North Carolina, Ali, many of them like Mitchell County and thousands of towns around the country like Spruce Pine, a lot of people basically just trying to make new lives for themselves, either in their communities or maybe thinking about moving elsewhere -- Ali.

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In their studies, University of Chicago psychologists Minjung Koo and Ayelet Fishbach examined how people pursuing goals were affected by focusing on either how far they had already come (to-date thinking) or what was left to be accomplished (to-go thinking).

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