Have we ever examined ourselves and asked whether we did our best or went all out when we looked for an excuse for our failure?

当我们为失败寻找借口时，我们是否审视过自己，问过自己是尽力还是全力以赴了？

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Not until we are parents ourselves do we realise what our parents did for us, what their lives were like.

直到我们自己也当父母时，我们才能意识到我们的父母为我们付出了什么，他们的生活是怎么样的。

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Sometimes we simply did what was expected of us without ever stopping to think about what we eventually wanted to accomplish for ourselves.

有时候，我们只是简单地去做那些自认为渴望的事，却没有停下来考虑自己真正想要的是什么。

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Playing at St James' Park was an honour and the fact we did not make it easy for ourselves made it even more exciting for the few hardcore fans that drove from Sheffield to see us play.

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