Your job, as captain of your soul, is to erect dams to keep these passions in check.
作为灵魂的船长，你的工作就是竖起堤坝来控制这些激情。
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These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.