Whenever I think of this humorous bit of wisdom, it reminds me to not take my life so seriously.

每当我想起这有点幽默的人生哲理，它便提醒我不要把我的生活看得那么严肃。

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Although I have lost everything in this terrible earthquake, I have not lost my life.

尽管我在这场可怕的地震中丢掉了所有东西，但我没有失去我的生命。

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I hear this not so much as advice as useful, potentially life-saving information, which I didn't know before.

我听到类似的于生命有益的且在此之前我并不知道的的信息，我会感激不尽，不会有任何的反感。

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If so,why am I risking my life for this mission if we are not there to win it?" But more troops alone will not secure Afghanistan,says retired Staff Sergeant Brian McGough.

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This is actually something very near and dear to my heart because I literally would not be doing what I do in life today had I not taken a couple of courses here, this one in particular, pass fail.

事实上，我是很关心的,因为今天我就不会站在这里,如果当初我没有这里上课的话，这门课，要么过要么挂科。

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I was not a part of this growing conversation about religion and public life in the 1990s.

我并未参与到90年代日益加大的,对宗教和社会生活的讨论中。

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"I thought to myself, 'this is not the kind of life I want, '" recalled Ms. Aronin, who returned home, enrolled in college, married, had three children, went to the movies and sublimated her desire to appear in them.

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She also wrote a book about her struggle, called This Is Not The Life I Ordered.

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"I am not going to be like this forever, life will be better for me in (the) future, " Shailendra says, though he's less clear when asked how he'll accomplish such change.

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