He has spent years agonising over how things went wrong.
多年来,他一直在为事情出了什么问题而苦恼。
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I don't worry, " he said, " I don't agonise over my problem.
我不担心,“他说,” 我不为我的问题而苦恼。
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However agonising the insight and mourning might be, these must always be preferable to allowing loss to contaminate the totality of one's perspective.
无论这种领悟和哀悼多么痛苦,总比为整个人的一切都感到绝望要好。
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You know, I went through a solid six months where I was just agonising over what I saw.
你知道,我经历了整整六个月, 我只是为我所看到的事情而痛苦。
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When the yield curve inverted last October, with yields on long-term bonds falling below those on short-term ones, analysts agonised about the signal being sent.
It seemed to her so sacrilegious to be peering into that poor distorted, agonised face, that, by a flash of instinct, she went forwards and softly covered the dead man's countenance with her handkerchief.