It's the notion of knowing exactly what needs to be done, but lacking the nerve to do it; the apprehension to your aspirations.

从概念上讲，我们知道我们必须要做什么，但是却没有勇气去做；这就是对你的志向的忧虑。

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Revitalizing means growing up from decline, so the problem of Northeastern China is not the poverty, but lacking the way to promote the resplendence.

振兴意味着从衰退中崛起。东北的问题并不是绝对的贫穷，而是如何在原有基础上重现辉煌。

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All-girl troupe battles have blunt immediacy; they're briskly edited, but lacking the swooping cameras, neon and dry ice of the dance-out-of-the-slums genre.

女孩们飙舞时，简洁直率；她们跳舞跳得轻快，但不是那种用俯冲摄像机、霓虹和干冰营造出来的“跳出贫民窟”的类型电影。

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He writes "The nations in cold locations particularly in Europe are filled with spiritedness." There is that platonic word again Thumos thumos are filled with thumos " "but lacking in discursive thought " lacking in the deliberative element in other words.

生存在寒冷地区的民族,特别是在欧洲,都充满了意志“，等同柏拉图的用词,“Thumos，他们都充满了,但缺乏推论的思考能力“,即缺乏商议的要素。

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Analysts described the presentation as crisp but lacking the excitement of a Jobs production.

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And so, here we sit, with the physical ability to provide for ourselves but lacking the pecuniary wherewithal.

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