The other half brought up a painful memory: being picked last, dropping an important pass, or being excluded from a game.

还有一半人则说出了一段痛苦的回忆：成为最不会被选的人，没有接到重要的传球，或者被排挤不让参加游戏。

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Right now you may be driven by a problem, a pressure, or a deadline. You may be driven by a painful memory, a haunting fear, or an unconscious belief.

此刻或许你正被困难、压力、期限所驾驭，或是被痛苦的回忆、不断的恐惧或潜意识信念所控制。

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His voice choked at the painful memory and he fell silent.

这些痛苦的回忆使他声音哽咽，他沉默了下来。

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Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says Gates urged both leaders to avoid a repetition of the "painful memory" of the five-month government formation process in 2005.

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So much of the pathos of Satan's fallen condition involves his painful memory of that blissful state in heaven from which he had fallen.

很多撒旦堕落后的悲怆,夹杂了他憾失此前在天堂的幸福生活的,苦痛的回忆。

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This was largely a reaction to the painful memory of the Asian crisis: Asian countries wanted to insure themselves against another sudden flight of capital.

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With the pair well clear of the chasing pack Sunday came down to a straight shoot out between the pair and Scott went some way to erasing the painful memory of his British Open experience, when he led with four holes left and ended up losing.

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The late 1980s property bubble was too recent and too painful for the memory to have been erased.

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