It meant I had a life!

因为这意味着我拥有自己的生活！

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There was a time when I had some difficulties in my life.

有一段时间，在我的生活中有一些困难。

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My personal life was terrible. My mother had died, and a couple of years later I had a breakdown.

我的个人生活糟透了。母亲去世了,几年后我精神崩溃了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"I thought that the American medical system was going to take away my life savings and essentially ruin any prospects I had for a pleasant retirement after the operation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

But you understand what I mean because you've had a remarkable life that no one would signed up for.

但您应该理解我的意思吧,您的一生如此非凡,是普通人不能承受的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It was very well received. You decided, "for my next project I am going to write about my life." You've had a hard life, by the way.

你决定：，“我的下一本书要写我的生活”,顺便提一下，你的日子很贫苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Then I picked it up after he died, and I had written a book in most of the areas in which I had spent my life, but never on monetary policy on which I had spent a great part of my life.

FORBES: The Early Years

"I had never in my life seen such a disaster as I had in New Orleans, " Prepas says.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

But Asif and I had become accustomed to a life of sacrificing our personal happiness and any sense of normalcy and privacy.

NPR: Memoir: Bhutto Knew of Dangers in Her Return