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不快乐
Unhappiness
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.
她低着头,双手紧紧地握在他椅子的扶手上,因为她的心渴望着他,但又够不着他。她看见他那没有看见的、落在她脸上的表情,喉咙痛得难受。
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
当一位母亲与女儿争吵时,她会因冲突而产生双倍的不快乐,并因与女儿的冲突而产生同理心。母亲在一生中都保持着与女儿保持良好关系的特殊需要。
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
当你不参与其中时,别人的不快乐似乎是世界上最有趣的事情,因为你认为你能解决它,你是上帝,你在这之上,而他们的不快乐只是毫无意义的辛劳和痛苦。如果是你,那就不是喜剧了。
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
我越来越相信,我们的幸福或不幸更多地取决于我们如何看待生活中的事件,而不是这些事件本身的性质。
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
幽默并不能把我们从不快乐中拯救出来,但却能让我们稍稍远离它。
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
世界上有许多不快乐,因为困惑和没有说出口的事情。
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
我们所有的不快乐都来自于我们无法独处。
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
大规模的移民必然意味着这个被遗弃的国家的某种或那种不幸。
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
我对造成我丈夫遭受的任何不幸都没有丝毫的内疚感。他们和我一样应该受到谴责。