We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine.

我们不满足于为我们自身、为自己的存在而拥有的人生，我们想过一种存在于别人心目中的虚构的生活，为了这个目的而极力出人头地。

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Can you have an imaginary life?

你能拥有一个想像的生活吗？

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I prefer my imaginary life.

我更倾向于我想象中的生活。

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Yet his theories about life on Mars may have had more lasting influence on many writers of imaginary stories.

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Meanwhile, his youth was going away and now this imaginary student is now thirty-three years old never had time to marry or start a normal life.

与此同时，他的青春年华也已经逝去了,现在这位设想出来的同学已经33岁了,还没有结婚也没有开始正常人的生活。

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So Mr Romand led his perfect but imaginary life, waiting for the sword to fall.

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This peek into the everyday life of an imaginary South Korean boy named Insoo Kim offers insight into what the life of youths in the rest of the world might be like in the near future.

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Is he not a particle of a dead life that has drifted in from the imaginary void?

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