白日梦可能看上去像是真实生活境遇的预演，但我们知道它们不是。

Daydreams may seem to be rehearsals for real-life situations, but we know they are not.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我确信，有人提到过人类境遇的意象。

People have spoken of an image of the human condition. To be sure.

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她对如此境遇的抱怨遭到了医院护士的嘲笑。

The hospital's nurses laughed when she complained about this treatment.

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Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change. Let go.

海伦毫无理性地选择了你，因为她对你的爱,也无原因，别问什么，拥抱她,看着你的境遇变迁，放开。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We didn't even get to the fact that you came in an Orthodox Christian, that you found all these different ways to keep progressing, keep finding God within all these different settings.

我们甚至还没提及,您来自一个东正教的家庭，在旅途上，您克服困难,不断前进,在不同境遇之中，仍能发现上帝的力量。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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