Don't mistake your need for self-mastery and control for your obvious ability to control others.

不要把你对于自我掌控的需要误当作你明显控制他人的能力。

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The ability to assign meaning to an illness or to symptoms has been found to enhance some patients' sense of self-mastery over a problem or crisis.

已经发现，患者具备赋予疾病或症状以某种意义的能力可以增强其应对某一问题或危机的自制意识。

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You see, without self-mastery, it is difficult to be self-giving.

你看，没有自我的约束要自我付出的话是非常不容易的。

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Morgan Freeman brings a sublime dignity and self-mastery to the role of Mandela.

NEWYORKER: Invictus

The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life