1. Too often, we find ourselves surrounded by soul-crushing negativity. 我们经常发现自己被消极幽灵缠绕。
2. Friends would try to set me up with girls and I'd remind them that most marriages quickly devolve into loveless, soul-crushing arrangements. 朋友们给我安排相亲的时候我会提醒他们，大部分的婚姻很快就变成了没有爱、没有灵魂的一种关系。
3. Your direct reports will appreciate it, and it'll probably give you more empathy in general since you'll have an idea of how soul-crushing mindless work can be. 你的下属们也会产生感激。那样一般来说也许会让你产生更多同情，尝到做那些不用脑力的工作对员工多么“损伤工作激情”的滋味。
4. Which means there is only one solution left: a long, slow, boring, lonely, soul-crushing process of digging out from under the piles of debt that got us into this mess. 这意味着解决的办法只剩一个：漫长、缓慢、没劲、孤独的灵魂拷问进程，使我们从把我们拖入这糟糕境地的、堆积如山的债务中解脱。
5. The report found that the safest individuals were those who surrendered to the soul-crushing monotony of habit and then convinced themselves that they had things pretty good. 该报告发现，最安全的是那些向单调乏味得能令灵魂破碎的习惯投降，然后竭力说服自己一切挺不错的人。
