To admit one's mistake is not to lose one's face.

承认的自己的错误并不丢脸也不丢人。

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Siddhartha had overcome the very human tendency to refuse to admit that one has made a mistake, that one has been on the wrong path, and that one must now trace one's steps and start all over again.

悉达多已经超越了人类的一种倾向——拒绝承认自己犯了错误，曾走上错误的道路，现在必须重头来过。

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