Perhaps, the authors suggest, people adapt to their circumstances, relinquish some unfulfilled aspirations by the middle of their lives, and enjoy life more.

这两位作者建议人们也许应该适应环境，到中年时放弃一些仍未实现的抱负，从而充分地享受人生。 。

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For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquish.

因为人生就是充满矛盾的：它要求我们抓住它所赐予的种种礼物不放，即使最终它又让我们将其放弃。

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What had drawn me to my wandering life, and why was it so hard to relinquish?

BBC: The end of a wandering way of life?

Now he is about to relinquish that post in turn but to take up yet another, as a senator-for-life, as his constitution, which is even now in force, provides for former heads of state.

ECONOMIST: Enough of Pinochet