地狱是一个充满火焰极其痛苦的地方。

Hell is an extremely miserable place full of fire.

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那是一次极其痛苦的返回伦敦的旅行。

It was an acutely uncomfortable journey back to London.

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写作对你来说是极其痛苦的过程。为什么？

Writing is an anguished process for you. Why?

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It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories.

这或许是我们之间友谊的关键时刻,他知道我的确用了许多时间考虑他和他的困境,在他陷入极其复杂的痛苦的精神危机时,他更是急于想了解这一点。

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