Don’t just buy a bunch of Stuff.” Buy based on your goals and values, not out of habit.

我并没有说不要花钱买可以让你得到快乐的东西，我的意思是：在消费的时候等一下，想一想，确定你购买的东西即重要又有用，而不是一味的买一堆东西，要基于目的和价值消费而不是习惯性消费。

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We say, "I love you" to our parents or significant other when we hang up the phone, not because we mean it, but out of habit.

我们会在挂电话时和父母或者某个重要的人说“我爱你”，不是因为我们真的想这么说，而是因为习惯。

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His own children have got into the habit of playing outside now: "We just send them out into the garden and tell them not to come back in for a while."

他自己的孩子现在已经养成了在外面玩的习惯：“我们只是让他们到花园里去，并告诉他们一段时间内不要回来。”

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And they certainly are not in the habit of going out and recruiting people on the street to come inside their home.

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Feminists are certainly not in the habit of pointing out the advantages that women share in employment market, particularly in this case involving Wal-Mart, are they Ms. Goudreau?

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That, says Ulf Jakobsson, head of Stockholm's Industrial Research Institute, is a sign that Sweden has not broken its 20-year habit of overspending and devaluing its way out of trouble.

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