The long-awaited recovery is now under way, but it's a slow, painful slog that's short on animal spirits and long on a drumbeat of numbers that mostly shift from dreadful to less depressing.

期待已久的恢复已开始，但这场缓慢而艰辛的跋涉少了些活力，有的只是大肆吹捧的数字游戏，尽管它最多只是将可怕的局势变得不那么令人沮丧。

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The suffer of hunger was definitely less painful than the first day, but it's still unbearable.

该遭受饥饿是绝对承受那么多痛苦，比第一天，但它仍然是难以承受的。

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The morph is supposed to get quicker and less painful every time it happens, but we have a feeling Tyler still isn't yet used to the agony.

虽然变身的时间会逐渐间断，痛苦也会慢慢减轻，但是我们仍然能感觉到Tyler仍然被变身的痛苦困扰着。

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But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him.

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But this is less painful than wasting the time of people you are speaking to because you were boring or hard to follow.

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But the process was much less painful if clear objectives were set up front.

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Monetary and fiscal easing should make this less painful, but this deleveraging still has years to go.

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