When things go wrong, you have a choice. You can wallow in self pity or you can seize the opportunity for self improvement.

当事情变糟的时候，你有一个选择，你可以沉湎于自怜，也可以抓住这个机会提升自己。

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Why sit around wallowing in self pity when you can be out having a good time.

既然能外出度过一个好时光，又何必闲坐着自我怜悯呢。

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There is no time for despair, no place for self pity, no need for silence, and no room for fear.

现在不是绝望悲哀的时候，我们无处自怜，无需沉默，也容不得畏惧。

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He is full of a kind of understandable self-pity, and his speeches are in some ways more characteristic of the gloomy intellectual milieu that is reflected in Chekhov's text really than almost anyone else's.

他身上有种合理的顾影自怜感，而在契诃夫的原文里,他的言论差不多是,最典型地反映当时晦暗的社会思想环境的。

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Obama spoke with confidence, optimism and grace, avoiding that peevish self pity he is prone to.

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Because after all, we are in a state of self-pity and self-accusation.

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