It wasn't individual letdowns. It was the idea that somebody else would get the job done.

球队并不是某个球员的个人表现让人失望，而是他们都认为总会有其他人站出来完成任务。

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But we were cautiously optimistic because we had so many letdowns following the previous experiments.

但是我们持谨慎的乐观主义，因为在以前的大量实验中我们失望了好多次。

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How we cope with that disappointment has a lot to do with how many more similar letdowns we'll be forced to experience.

当失落的情绪出现的时候，我们的应对方式跟我们之前经历过多少相似的失望有关。

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