英文外刊，什么是周日夜晚情绪综合征？(4)

We are sad, or panicked.
我们感到悲伤或恐慌。
Because a part of us recognizes that time is running out and we are not presently doing what we should with what remains of our lives.
因为一部分自我意识到时间已经不多了，我们现在还没有做余生生命该做的事情。
The anguish of Sunday evening is our conscience trying to stir us inarticulately into making more of ourselves.
我们的良心试图不善言辞地激励我们，让我们更了解自己,从而造成了周日晚上的痛苦。
In this sense, Sunday evenings have a history.
从这个意义来说，周日夜晚情绪综合征历史悠久。

Until recently, the last hundred years or so,there was, for most of us, no question of our true working selves ever finding expression in our labors.
直到最近，在过去一百年左右的时间里,对于我们大多数人来说，我们的工作从未表达过“真实的工作自”。
We worked to survive and would be grateful for a minimal income.
我们为了生存而工作，感激自己的微薄收入。
But such reduced expectations no longer hold.
但这种大打折扣的期望已无法持续。