缺少冲突和矛盾，就没有办法胜过他人。

Without conflicts and contradictions, there is no way to excel in others.

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我的姐姐是我生活的中心。和姐姐在一起为止，我从来没有缺少过爱情、友情和保护。

My elder sister is the center of my life. I never find the absence of love, friendship or guardian till I am with my sister.

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当他去买自行车时，他发现几乎没有自行车，这让他开始思考：如果缺少自行车与新冠肺炎有关，而且如果骑他自行车的人真的需要交通工具去上班呢？

When he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the lack of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who'd taken his bike really needed transportation to get to work?

youdao

Don't you feel it in certain details: the eerie lack of people in this place? "No one left and no one came."

你们难道不在细节中感受到：,在这个地方十分怪诞，缺少人，“没有人走，没有人来“

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If you don' t seek out the conflict, you won' t excel.

缺少冲突和矛盾，就没有办法胜过他人。

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Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.

这至少算是个改进，因为我们能说，看，你睡着了，即便没有任何人格功能性发生，人格功能性的缺少是暂时的，就说明你还活着。

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