Why sit around wallowing in self pity when you can be out having a good time.

既然能外出度过一个好时光，又何必闲坐着自我怜悯呢。

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When things go wrong, you have a choice. You can wallow in self pity or you can seize the opportunity for self improvement.

当事情变糟的时候，你有一个选择，你可以沉湎于自怜，也可以抓住这个机会提升自己。

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She's not someone who likes to wallow in self-pity.

她不是那种喜欢自怜的人。

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He is full of a kind of understandable self-pity, and his speeches are in some ways more characteristic of the gloomy intellectual milieu that is reflected in Chekhov's text really than almost anyone else's.

他身上有种合理的顾影自怜感，而在契诃夫的原文里,他的言论差不多是,最典型地反映当时晦暗的社会思想环境的。

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They never indulged in self-pity, no matter how stacked the odds were against them.

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The executives I interviewed picked themselves up and got on with business instead of wallowing in self-pity, just like Smart, Lin, Garvey, and Zinardi.

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Despite his terrible injuries and the 50 or so operations that followed to rebuild his face, Robin has never given in to self-pity.

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