You set up an idealized version of the thing (or person) and then try to fit the reality into this ideal, and are often disappointed.

你为这个人或事套上一个幻想，然后努力让现实符合你的幻想，这经常会以失望告终。

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But if you've known a woman for six DAYS and you try this kind of thing, you're going to shoot yourself in the foot.

但是如果你只和一个女人认识了6天，你就尝试做上面的事情，无外乎自作孽。

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My ambition is win everything with Liverpool. This year we won't play in the Champions league, so the most important thing is to try and win the league.

我的雄心壮志是希望在利物浦赢得一切，今年我们不能参加冠军杯，所以最重要的就是去努力比赛，赢得联赛奖杯。

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So, all right, we'll try and make this class work as smoothly as we can, allowing for this extra thing.

我会尽量让,课堂顺利地进行下去,还有一件事

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One thing that I wanted to emphasize in this course, or try to emphasize, is that part of finance is actually philanthropy.

在这堂课上我还要重点强调一点,或者说是试图强调,金融中的一部分,慈善事业

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Well, one thing that a literary argument can do is take something small like this and try to give an account for it, so that's what I'm going to do.

好了，文学争论能对向这样小细节,进行描写说明，所以，我现在要做的是。

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Actually got an idea that, hey let's cooperate and try to get this thing right.

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