It means something like a kind of dulled grayness or ordinariness of life.

这意味着像一种沉闷的灰色或平凡的生活。

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How many of us go through life like the elephants—believing that it was beyond our ability to do something only because we failed once or some times before?

我们中有多少人过着像大象一样的生活——仅仅因为之前失败过一次或几次，就认为自己的能力无法完成某件事？

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Whether you’re going through something negative like a divorce, or just want to add more positivity to your life, little changes can have a big effect with very little effort.

不管你是否正在经历一些让你感到头痛的事情，比如离婚，或者你想让自己的生活多一些正面的元素，小小的改变对你的生活都是很有帮助的，而且也不是很费力哦。

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It means something like a kind of dulled grayness or ordinariness of life.

它代表着一种,生活的灰暗，单调。

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Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.

即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质，一种生命的潜质，似乎被注入了神灵。

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But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.

即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。

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Eddie, it seems, reminds her of one of the dead sons, and Ted thinks that this teen-ager will bring his wife back to life or something like that.

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In business ethics, we want to let people know that business is not a life or death battle, but something like a win-win result that lets all people benefit from commerce.

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In everyday life, when you do something reckless like that you get fired, or go to jail.

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