It must struggle against events which would help to achieve its goal too rapidly--by a kind of short-circuit.

它会在危险中挣扎,因为危险会太早把它带到终点。

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He struggles when he is there on the floor in their company, wanting to escape from their company, knowing that he doesn't want this.

他挣扎着，躺在地上,想逃离这些挥之不去的人群，他不想要这一切。

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He is so pinched and straightened in his environment that his leaving is more an avoidance than an embrace.

在如此艰难的处境下他挣扎求生,离开对他而言与其说是寻求解脱,不如说是逃避。

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In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

在我所有的梦中，在我感到无助和恐怖的时刻，他总是冲向我，一会儿在水中左右摇摆，挣扎。

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If people are on the verge of dying, perhaps it is necessary to overlook that injustice, but I think it's important to keep in mind that we're still committing injustice by taking people's belongings or assets.

如果人们在死亡边缘挣扎，也许忽视这样的不公平是必要的，但我认为即使这样，我们依然要铭记,我们的行为不公正,这是在占有他人的财物或资产。

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So you have two rather competing senses of the word "vocation" here, vocation as employment and vocation as a calling, and they're constantly for Milton bleeding into one another, these two senses of the word, and often struggling with one another or competing with one another.

所以现在有两个相互矛盾的“vocation“的含义，一个是工作，一个是神的召唤，弥尔顿经常把它们混淆起来，这个词的两种含义，它们经常,在他的内心挣扎，互相竞争。

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when innocent lives were lost in such tragedy, especially after Hurricane Katrina, in the Jewish community people are really struggling with that question.

当这样的灾难夺去无辜的生命，尤其是在卡特里娜飓风之后，犹太社会的人们开始,挣扎于这个问题。

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I love these pieces because you can just see him struggling on the page.

从字里行间,你们可以看到他在挣扎。

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