里斯说，我们维持自己的利润预期，这个时候没有理由退缩。

'We kept our [profit] guidance in place, and there's no reason to step off that at this point in time,' he said.

youdao

于是我们从公共生活中退缩了出来，而没有做任何严肃的尝试。

Then we withdraw from public life before giving it a serious shot.

youdao

很多时候我们因为过去的失败、承诺、情感、障碍构成的所混乱的状况而退缩：我们不能改变职业因为我们已经习惯于所做的而且改变太难了；我们没有时间和心爱的人相处因为我们有太多的承诺了。

Many times we are held back by the tangled web of previous failures, commitments, emotions, barriers. We cannot change careers because we're used to what we're doing and it's too hard to change.

youdao