Understanding the gap between how you see yourself and how others see you can be a painful process, often triggered when one is passed over for promotion.

明白你如何看待自己和别人如何看待你之间的差距是一个痛苦的过程，这种痛苦往往于自己在职位升迁中被忽视时激起。

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This is poverty passed from one generation to the next in a painful chain of illness, misery, blunted capacity, and lost productivity.

这种贫困代代相传，痛苦地受到疾病、苦难、能力减弱及生产力丧失带来的束缚。

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A short time since I passed through Marseilles, and went to see the old place, which revived so many painful recollections.

不久以前，我路过马赛，去看看那座老房子，它唤起了我许多许多痛苦的回忆。

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There was relief that the Greek Parliament passed the painful austerity measures required for Greece to receive additional bailout funds to prevent it from defaulting on its debt (or at least postpone its potential default).

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On Nov. 12, the Greek parliament passed a new budget setting out further painful cuts to meet its obligations, but there are disagreements among its creditors about its ability to sufficiently reduce its debt by 2020.

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Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.

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