Sedikides admits that nostalgia has its painful side, but the net effect is to make life seem more meaningful.

塞迪基德斯承认乡愁固然有痛苦的一面，但它可以有效地让生命更有意义。

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In TERMS of output, America's recession may be showing signs of ending; but it retains its painful grip on the Labour market.

从产出角度美国衰退看来已经结束；但是就业市场依然不容乐观。

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This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it made an impression on him.

那梦，和大多数的梦一样，只是和一些惨痛莫名的情况有关连，但是他仍然受了感动。

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"Europe has been good for Ireland because Ireland is in the midst of a very painful recession and its economic reliance on the EU has been revived in people's minds,"

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Fate will permit no apocalypse before its time, before the necessary and painful steps that have to lead up to the Last Judgment.

命运在来之前不会允许人们去启示别人，必须要自己去经历必要而又痛苦的那几步,才能走向最终的审判。

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But there are also indications that the U.S. has learned from its painful past.

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From Homer he has come to believe that human life, with its painful choices and inevitable end, is preferable to the pointless immortality of the gods.

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