You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

你可以是环境条件的被动牺牲者，也可以是主宰你自己生命的英雄。

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You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

要么你成为环境的被动受害者，要么你主动成为自己生活的英雄。

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When you sound like a passive victim of circumstance, you come to act and think the way victims do.

当你听上去像环境下的一个被动受害人，那么你就会和受害人一样去做出行为和思考。

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And it was out of this recognition that the narrative of a slim book grew, careful always to make sense, to reflect, to contextualize -- the obvious efforts of a once passive victim to exert agency over an ungovernable act.

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