The main cause of forgetting ideal is that they think it's too far to reach in the lifetime. As time going on, discouragement surpasses the youth enthusiasm.

忘记理想的重要原因，是他们认为理想世界太远了，自己有生之年是不能实现了，失望之情渐渐压过青春热血。

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It's hard to be aware that you're going too far while you're actually going too far.

在你实际已经离开很远的时候很难意识到你离开太远了。

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We're very, very pleased with the result, but it's far too early to start thinking about going through to the next stage.

我们对于结果非常非常开心，但是现在就把下面的比赛想当然是太早了。

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In fact, it's not going too far to say that if you use in-ears with similar properties to these, and if you're only ever likely to use these types of headphones, then you may as well pick your handset based on other factors, because audio quality isn't a big enough deal to accept or reject any of them.

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But I haven't done the ones that I think would be going too far and it's a question of judgment.

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It showed there is such a thing as going too far to manage customer expectations--and that it's dangerous to make promises you can't keep.

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