Why have a fight with your spouse over an outfit when it's so much easier to just say "you look great, honey"?

如果你只需要简单的说句“亲爱的，你看起来很漂亮”，那么为什么你还要为一套衣服而和配偶争吵吗？

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". It is a power play to ignore the questions of others as you effectively say "I do not have to follow social rules with you as I am so much more important.

这是以一种高姿态来忽略别人的提问，就跟你说“因为我比你重要得多，所以没必要和你遵守一样的社会规则”一样有效。

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You're frightened of what to say and how to say it, so you pretty much agree or go along with everything that is being discussed in order to avoid ANY sort of controversy.

你很害怕，不知道该说什么以及该怎么说，所以，为了避免引起任何争议，你很可能随声附和或者赞同任何正在谈论的内容。

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Often, she says, people worry so much about what to say to someone with a terminal illness -- or about saying the wrong thing -- that they just stay away.

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And they have learned the hard way that when they're being painted as soft on terrorism, it doesn't help much to say, well, Senator so-and-so agrees with me.

NPR: White House Boosts National Security Rhetoric

Under a change in accounting rules, Groves says, the transactions did not have to be reported this year, but critics say that with ABC getting so much government money, it should be more transparent.

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