My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

我的写作把说话方式与人际关系关联起来，目的是为了体现语言学在理解和提升人际关系所能发挥的作用。

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The point being that never in a million years did I expect to find myself talking about the Purpose Of Suffering by talking about God, but something happened that changed all that for me.

问题在于我从未期望能够通过谈论上帝回答这个关于“苦难的意义”的问题，但经历一些事后，我确实发生了彻底的改变。

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He was talking about achieving your life purpose. He said something along the lines of "When you work towards any difficult goal, there will always be walls."

他谈论(如何)实现人生目标，他说了如下的话“当你努力实现任何艰难的目标时，总是会遇到一些墙壁，这些墙壁不是要阻挡你，而是阻挡那些没有渴望跨越它们去实现他们目标的人。”

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But Pink is not just talking about any old purpose--he is talking about transcendent purpose.

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