We are born loving sweetness , so we heap sugar into our lattes and drown our chinese food in sweet sauces . But constantly indulging our craving for sweetness has an insidious effect .
To his credit , president barack obama has refrained from indulging in inflammatory rhetoric or taking precipitous action on the currency issue .
值得称赞的是,奥巴马总统在汇率问题上不再沉溺于煽动性的言论,或是采取轻率之举。
With the return on cash close to zero , and government-bond yields in many markets near record lows , investors are indulging in another desperate " hunt for yield " akin to the one that sparked the subprime-mortgage boom before the crisis .
This is the perplexing thing about procrastination : although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks indulging in it generally doesn 't make people happy .
这就是拖延症令人困惑的地方:尽管它是在避免令人不愉快的任务,但是沉湎于其中也不会让人快乐。
Though I still battle the worker bee reflex to seek refuge in a tasty , little " splurge " outside the office , I 've found some creative ways to scale back the costs of indulging too much at lunch .
The similarities are many : each has a large territory and population , a federal system , a fondness for democracy , a deeply religious society , a middle class keen on indulging in great material consumption , a history of throwing off british rule , and so on .