没有目标，你的生活只是被动地对周围事物做出反应，你只能让生活推着你转圈。

Without goals, you are living reactively, letting life push you around.

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“女性的生活只是为了下一代，”莱辛谈到自己母亲所处的时代，“她们的生活似乎在生了小孩之后就终止了。

"There is a whole generation of women, " she has said, speaking of her mother's era, "and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children.

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然而，很多20多岁的年轻人是“踩水者”，他们的生活只是复制他们贫穷、不那么稳定、不参与投票选举、对周围的事漠不关心的父母，但是实际效果更糟糕。

Most twenty-somethings, however, are “treaders”, who simply replicate the lessons of their poorer, less stable, non-voting and hands-off parents, but to worse effect.

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He simply would have plunged ahead into life as though he had freedom, even though he was too stupid to recognize that it was an illusion.

他自然会好像是自由的一样一头扎入生活中，即便他太愚笨而看不出这只是个幻想。

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But I think it's just, it's kind of the lifestyle. It might be like a touristy thing as well,

我觉得这只是一种生活方式。它像是游客们喜欢的东西，

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And if money-makers in that one and there is neither order nor necessity in this life but calling this life sweet, free, and blessed, he follows it throughout.

如果换成是商人,没有规律及必然性的生活,而只是,惬意，自由与喜悦，他还彻底跟随这样的人生画面。

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