They told you it was a bad idea because they were miserable behind their desks and didn't want to watch someone rise above.

他们告诉你那不是一个好主意是因为他们坐办公桌的日子很悲惨，他们不想看到有人做了他们不敢做的事。

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How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

有几次你仔细看过满月上升？也许二十次吧？然而一切都无止尽了。

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"You wake up in the morning at about 5 o'clock ... and then you watch the sun rise and this extremely peaceful and serene atmosphere and then you just look at the sun coming like a ball of fire, rising from the sand and then coming up, " recalls Jibunoh.

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