在桥上出生、长大的人，在别处发现了难以忍受的枯燥和空虚的生活。

Men born and reared upon the Bridge found life unendurably dull and inane elsewhere.

youdao

我如此努力，可是却感觉如此的孤独、无力和空虚。

I am trying so hard but feeling so lonely, so inadequate, so hollow.

youdao

是你自己而不是你的环境、工作或家庭使你感到苦恼和空虚。

It is you - not your environment, not your job, not your family - that is the cause of your unhappiness and emptiness.

youdao

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

勇敢是我与生俱来的神秘，智慧是我熟稔于心的能力：,因为错过撤退的行军队列,没能和他们一起进入空虚的没有围墙的大本营。

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Consider just the following passage from Leviathan with one of my favorite titles from the book, a chapter called "Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy " and Fabulous Traditions."

只需想想《利维坦》中如下的段落,它有一个我很喜欢的标题，这一章叫做,“空虚的哲学和神怪的传说,所造成的黑暗“

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