Better to have axed Wilbur at the beginning, I felt, than allow me to grow to love the protagonists and then give one of them the chop in the end.

我看还不如在最开头就用斧子把威尔伯砍死，这总比让我渐渐爱上他们时在最后给其中一个来上那么一下要好。

youdao

It took years of dead-end love affairs (and a healthy dose of therapy) to push me over the edge.

经过几年无望的爱情（和一次治疗），才使我跨过了这道坎。

youdao

In the end, it was his fantasy, you haven't spoken to me of love, just your gentleness, let I misunderstood.

到头来，原来只是自己的幻想，你没有对我说过爱，只是你的温柔，让我误解了。

youdao

In the end he is superman to me and his mind is what I fell in love with.

FORBES: Paul Allen and Rodney Dangerfield: Neither Got Enough Respect.

That is a valid worry, but what strikes me is that people love to worry about when the good thing (in a limited sense admittedly) comes to an end without being appreciative of the good thing while it lasts.

FORBES: Fed Profits and Treasury Financing, the Good and the Bad