This bout of self-pity was getting me nowhere.

这一阵自哀自怜对我不会有什么好处。

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She became completely consumed with anger, bitterness, vengeance, and self-pity: "I was absolutely determined that this man would never, ever regain his freedom."

她心中充满了愤怒、悲哀、仇恨和自怜：“她斩钉截铁地认为这个人将永世不能重获自由。”

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Each day, when I awaken, I will follow this plan of battle before I am captured by the forces of sadness, self-pity and failure.

每天醒来当我被悲伤、自怜、失败的情绪包围时，我就这样与之对抗。

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This self-pity poisons the fun, rendering even the algorithmic nudity which is surely half the reason that viewers tune in grim rather than hot.

NEWYORKER: Tool Time

And it is easy to imagine how this leads to the tar-pit of self-pity.

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Argentines, who have a tendency to self-pity, duly blamed it both for doing this and for not doing it earlier.

ECONOMIST: Argentina