Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

生活总是在补偿性地自我平衡着，在这里得到的幸福，会在那里失去。

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There was once a time when I also deemed that we began to lose our direction and become numb without too much affection in this material-flooding world.

曾经，我也这样认为，认为在这样物欲的城市，开始迷失心的方向，变的麻木，变得没有太多情感。

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"We cannot forget that, by indulging in an affluent life early on, young people often fail to get a good grounding and lose direction," he said.

他说：“我们要注意的是，过早沉溺于富足生活会使得青年人往往没有一个踏实的基础并会迷失自我。”

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"We don't want that court battle to take us in a different direction and lose sight of what he's trying to do, " he said.

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