but in that time, I'm hoping to set up my life such that one day, in the long term,

但长期以来，我希望有一天能够掌握自己的生活，

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First of all, negative time should not bother anybody; t=0 is when I set the clock, I measured time forward, but yesterday would be t = -1 day, right?

首先,负的时间对我们不存在任何干扰,t=0使我们设定的初始时间,我是用顺序计时,所以昨天就可以记为-1天,对吗

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