我觉得有时候人们赋予工作的幻想与人们赋予爱情的幻想一样——热切的激情让人觉得所错过的职业比生命本身还重要。

Sometimes I think people invest their careers with the same mythology they do their love lives ---- the great passion, the career that got away, now looms larger than life.

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这不仅仅是你对自己或者对方的不切现实的期望(要知道除了你自己没人能让你幸福)，也是你对激情不现实的幻想。

This is not only an unrealistic expectation to lay on yourself or on them - nobody can "make" you happy, except you - but it's an unrealistic expectation to lay on your relationship.

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The poem identifies also cold and passion with dawn the moment of awakening, which is also a moment of coming into reality from dream and sleep.

诗歌还将黎明的寒冷与激情,比作一种觉醒时刻,从睡梦和幻想回到现实的时刻。

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