"With all my heart, I urge you to pull up an anchor and make full sail before we lose the tide and are left stranded on the beach, exposed to the coming storms."

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And when you lose a game, you kind of make a mental note to yourself, "That really screwed me up.

当你下输了一盘时,你也许会在心里记下,这次实在太糟糕了

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they're setting up in advance to lose.

他们在输掉之前为自己找好借口。

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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