我的形象在早上看起来不佳。我可不想自己吓自己。

I do not look good in the morning, and I didn't want to be frightened.

youdao

“意外之得”最大的两个阻碍似乎是“自己吓自己”和“其他计划”。

The two biggest blocks to serendipity seem to be ego-fear and "other plans".

youdao

尝试或者想想“自己吓自己”之外的方式挺诱惑人的，但我怀疑那只呢能产生更大的混乱思维导致问题变的更糟糕。

It's tempting to try and think your way out of ego-fear, but I suspect that only makes the problem worse by generating a more complex tangle of rationalizations for the fear.

youdao

If only you really truly believed you were going to die, you would scream and scream and scream.

只有在你真的相信自己会死的情况下，你会吓得尖叫不断。

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