You'll manage. We've proven ourselves masters of the flimsy rationalization.

你会处理好。事实证明我们都是很冲动人。

Psychologists call this common phenomenon delayed rationalization.

心理学家称这种常见现象为延迟合理化。

That's a rationalization, and you know it.

也很合理，你是明白。

But even with these two elements, most fraud still requires rationalization.

但就算有了这两大因素，大多数还是需要自我合理化。

“There can be no more rationalizations for our failure to act, ” declared Ambassador Haley.

“我们不采取行动是不合理，”海利大使称。

Delayed Rationalization How do you know when you've made a good decision?

延迟合理化你怎么知道自己做了个正确决定？

While individual motivations may differ from case to case, the fraud triangle, a model developed by criminologist Donald Cressey, shows three conditions that make fraud likely: pressure, opportunity, and rationalization.

背後动机因人而异，「三角」是犯罪学家克雷西提出理论，归纳出诱发三大因素：压力、机会、合理化。

But actually, I think it's a bit of self-serving rationalization disguised as philosophy.

但实际上，我认为这是种伪装成哲学自私合理化。

It was an era of the rationalization of the scientific community.

是个科学界合理化时代。

The rationalization process takes the edge off anxiety, offering us just a bit of agency.

合理化过程减轻了焦虑，给我们带来了点自主权。

Rationalization, the money's still flowing beneath the process.

合理化，钱仍然在流程之下流动。

And my rationalization was, it seems like everybody's doing it.

我合理化解释是，似乎每个人都在这么做。

That sort of rationalization is still happening.

这种合理化解释仍在发生。

Do you want to know how embarrassing your weak-kneed rationalizations for jailing political opponents ring?

你想知道为囚禁政治对手而找些软弱无力理由有多丢人吗？

So we are constantly looking at portfolio rationalization.

因此，我们直在审视和优化产品组合。

I love, love, love this rationalization for this specific reason.

我非常非常喜欢这个理由这种说辞。

Obviously you can take it too far, but it is healthy to force yourself past the resistance and the rationalizations holding you back from doing something that you already know is good for you.

显然你可以做得太过火，但强迫自己克服阻碍你做些你已经知道对你有好处事情阻力和合理化是健康。

It's the transition from traditional to rational worldviews, or the rationalization of society, that ushered in modernity for Weber, and we can see this rationality at work in an especially pervasive kind of formal organization: the bureaucracy.

从传统世界观向理性世界观转变， 或者说社会理性化，对于韦伯来说标志着现代性到来， 而我们可以在种特别普遍正式组织看到这种理性运作：官僚主义。

And he admits to that and now says that at this stage of his political career, he's trying really hard to be on guard against that instinct for rationalization 'cause he knows he has it in him.

他承认了这点，并表示在他政治生涯这个阶段，他正在努力警惕种合理化本能，因为他知道自己有这种倾向。

So I don't know that there was a rationalization of like, we want to leave it in your imagination, but you could, you know, you can bullshit something philosophically either way.

所以我不确定是否有个合理解释，比如，我们希望它留在你想象，但你可以，你知道，你可以从哲学上胡扯任何种方式。