I didn't realize any significant progress in strength and the weight room smelled like sweaty feet and massive ego.

我没发现力量上有什么明显的进步，举重房里全部是汗脚的臭味和大量我自己的气味。

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Pisces is a Water element. Ruled by mystical Neptune, this sign is extremely receptive, compassionate, and other-directed. But the lack of ego-strength can make you feel helpless.

双鱼座是水相星座，受神秘的海王星所控制。双鱼非常善于接纳，富有同情心，并且很为别人着想。不过，缺乏自我力量会使你觉得无助。

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The difficulty that we are experiencing now? It is not a position we chose for ourselves, but we can push through with strength and purpose, not ego.

至于我们当下正在经历的困难，它并非是我们自己选择的境遇，但我们可以凭借自己的力量、瞄准自己的目标冲出困局，而不是凭借过度的自我意识。

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After all the female avengers of the past fifteen years Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie kicking men in the ego and other places American movies have at last produced a woman clothed, like Athena, in willful strength and intellectual armor.

NEWYORKER: Dead Reckoning