A surprising number of people emerged from the bar with dots and stripes pained across their faces.

从吧台过来脸上涂画着点和条纹状的人出奇的多。

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“The residents were my childhood friends and it pained me to see how difficult their lives had become,” recalls Yoying. “I knew I had to try to improve their lives.”

“这儿的乡民都是我的童年朋友，看到他们仍如此艰难谋生让我感到心痛，”Yoying回忆到：“我必须为改善他们的生活而尽力。”

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Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware.

直到他出版了自己的这本有关他们关系的书时，他身上的负担才得以减轻他的剖析自然、饱含痛苦，具有强烈的自我意识。

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Roberts, too, is haunted and pained, whereas Portman and Owen drink and spit their lines with undiminished relish, often at speeds that Nichols can barely handle.

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Their dislike was almost Russian in the sense that the success of Gates pained Jobs (and vice versa), but consumers should be thankful that markets were open and free so that these two titans of capitalism could take each other on.

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"In the mid-90s people would rather burn their scalps with chemicals to straighten it to confirm with the Western standard of beauty than have natural hair and that pained me, " he says passionately.

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