Maybe work on seeing the other point of view and you won't lockhorns as much as you did this year.
如果能试着从别的角度看问题，也许你就不会像今年一样和别人有这么多的争执了。
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This second era ended some four decades later, after another world war had drained the Europeans of much of their strength, Arab nationalism had risen, and the two superpowers had begun to lockhorns.