Does life keep slapping you in the face from the same direction?

生活是否会始终从同一方面来打击你吗？

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Seeing work as just something to do to get by is like slapping yourself in the face.

把工作视为勉强维持生计就好像在打你自己的脸。

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I felt my tie being loosened, my collar unbuttoned, hands slapping my face.

我感到领带被拉松了，领扣被解开了，脸被人抽打着。

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Ben Franklin should have had an agent In his Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama recounts how merchants of the 18th century exploited Benjamin Franklin's fame, slapping his face on inkwells, porcelain, even dolls, without his permission.

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Then women move in, tearing off his shirt and slapping him in the face and on his arms.

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Royden Cope, 63, was accused of restraining the boy by his wrists and then slapping him across the face.

BBC: Prosecution of deputy head teacher Royden Cope defended