痛苦得几乎难以忍受。

The pain was almost too great to endure.

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这种痛苦几乎使他无法忍受。

The pain was almost more than he could bear.

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我不得不学会忍受痛苦。

I just had to learn to live with the pain.

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So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

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it has symbolically suffered from the offerer's state of ritual impurity or sinfulness.

象征性的忍受了由,献祭者的不洁或罪孽所带来的痛苦。

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But before he can actually be made present at the actual event of the Nativity, he has to endure something painful and obviously momentous: "from out his secret Altar toucht with hallow'd fire."

但是要想真正能在,基督降生时出现，他不得不忍受一些痛苦，而且是巨大的痛苦：,“从神秘的祭坛外碰到圣火“

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