Since we lack basic confidence in our ability to make something worthwhile, we invest more and more energy into our projects trying to push them just a little bit further.

我们缺乏完成目标的最基本的自信心，我们只是尽可能多地把投入精力投入到工作中去使结果看上去不那么糟糕。

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ONE reason for Japan’s reliance on nuclear power—with all its attendant difficulties of building reactors safely in an earthquake zone—is its lack of indigenous energy sources.

日本依赖核能的一个重要原因在于它缺乏固有的能源资源，伴随而来产生了必须要在地震带上建造安全的反应堆，但这是非常困难的。

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There is no lack of ideas for ways in which the two shores of the sea could collaborate in producing and distributing green energy.

地中海两岸在关于生产制造和分配使用绿色能源方面的合作方式是不缺少想法的。

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"And they will see President Obama's higher taxes, more spending,more debt, more government intervention in our economy,in the banks, in the auto industry, in health care and in energy as largely responsible for that lack of job creation,"

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The main obstacles cited by the energy executives surveyed speak for themselves: opposition to expanded drilling in places such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (cited by 33%), environmental concerns (16%) and a lack of investment in energy due to low commodity prices (14%).

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Media members would have doubtless decried this lack of energy in the executive, but does anyone really think we have a recessionary rush to housing and flat to down markets if Bush promises to maintain what Reagan and Clinton handed him in the form of a strong dollar and lower prices of gold, oil and other commodities?

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Speaking to the BBC, Richard Lloyd of consumer group Which? criticised the opacity and lack of competition in the energy market.

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