It is chiefly at the moment when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain.

尤其是在我们急于想把思想里的线索和痛心的现实生活联系起来时，它们偏会在我们的脑子里断裂。

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It's all about slowing down your life, because we're all so hyper-stressed and wound up so tight, we are about to snap.

这是关于如何放慢你的生活步调，因为我们的压力如此之大，发条上的如此之紧，我们几近崩溃。

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They don't realise that loneliness can come alive, that it can start to snap and hound at a life.

人们一般不会认识到孤独会苏醒起来，而且会开始进入和烦扰一个人的一生。

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Electric motors produce maximum torque at zero RPMs, which means they snap to life at the touch of the accelerator.

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Well into old age he could be spotted, in bright red parka and with frozen beard, lying full-length on the Antarctic sandstone to snap some tiny life-containing fissure in the rocks.

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But when does our core decency come in when we make such life-altering decisions in a snap?

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