我有个模糊的印象，就是她作为一个亚裔这个事实跟对我的强烈吸引力有关系，但当时的我很抗拒这种感觉，觉得这是种族主义。

I remember having a vague sense her being Asian had something to do with my attraction, but I dismissed that sense at the time, feeling it was racist.

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而事实上，我后来在一本书(由那相同的水手第一次引用的话，抒写了大海赐予的礼物)上发现的差不多就是这几句话，现在感觉十分亲切。

And, in fact, I later found almost those exact words in a book that is now dear to me, by the same sailor, cited by the first man, who had written of the gifts of the sea.

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我在“幸福感研究”中学到的最有用的东西之一就是，尽管我们以为是我们的感觉影响行为，事实上，是行为影响我们的感觉。

One of the most helpful things I've learned in my happiness research is that although we think that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act.

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