They measured meaning by asking questions like "How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?"

他们通过问这样的问题来衡量意义，如：“你觉得你的生活有方向感或意义感的频率有多高？”

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The country now had a sense of direction again.

现在这个国家又找回了目标。

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Chaos creates the desire for a return to stability, for a sense of direction.

混乱会激起人们回归稳定，寻求方向感的渴望。

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At the time, there was a sense of euphoria, a sense of hope that Georgia was going in the right direction.

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It's this sense of injustice that keeps pushing this elegy in the direction of a theodicy: an attempt to justify the ways of God.

正是这种愤愤不平使这首悼亡诗,越来越像斯奥迪斯：试图证明上帝之所为。

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Frost, when he goes north of Boston, goes back to the country, goes in, in a sense, the opposite direction that America is going.

弗罗斯特，当他去波士顿北部时，回到那个国家，某种意义上来说，走进，和美国人完全相反的方向。

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And it gave me a sense of direction, a sense of service, it helped me grow, it helped me give back.

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"I think the bank is really doing what it should, namely to have a sense of direction, to maintain and preserve stability and confidence in the medium term, which is essential in the crisis, " he said.

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One is a sense of direction.

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