I quickly translated her act of banishment into my own deliberate act of self-exile.

我很快把妈妈这种放逐的行为解释成了我自己深思熟虑的自我放逐。

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You go alone, just like self-exile, and the things you could control and close mostly in unfamiliar condition is yourself.

只是一个人走、闯，像是流浪，像是放逐，所有一切陌生的环境变因里你掌握最深的、最能靠近的，莫过于你自己。

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He returned home after eleven years of self-imposed exile.

经历了11年的自我流放后他回家了。

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