He lived a painful life.

他过着艰辛的生活。

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You took my hope away and left me a painful and hopeless life.

你带走了我的一切希望，只给我留下了痛苦和没有希望的人生。

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And though regret can be painful, a life without regret isn't only near impossible, it would lack a fundamental emotion that spurs people to avoid future mistakes.

虽然说追悔让人痛苦，但是没有后悔的人生不仅近乎不可能，这样的人生还会使人缺乏一种避免自己未来犯错的基本情绪。

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These time-outs were often triggered by a crisis anything from a painful loss to a life threatening illness though a few deliberately chose to step off the grid when life got out of whack.

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"I have taken the front of the storm for the entire life of a man 50 years old, who has had a monumentally destructive, painful life that has been so damaged it is of huge proportions, " Murray told Lemon.

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Today Christians mourn the death of a man who gave up his life in a publicly humiliating and very painful way so that the rest of us might see God as a giver of redemption and grace.

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