When she was really unhappy she cleaned manically, wiping nonexistent dust from skirting and scrubbing floors until her knuckles were red and raw.

当她真的不开心时， 她会疯狂地打扫卫生，擦去踢脚板上根本不存在的灰尘， 擦洗地板，直到她的指关节都红肿了。

We fear that if we give a bit of unbiased mirroring to our child, we might be encouraging them to grow cataclysmically depressive, unfeasibly timid or manically resistant to authority.

我们害怕如果我们真的肯定了他们的情绪，他们会更容易走向极度的抑郁，胆怯和叛逆。

The very question of what we might really want became secondary to an infinitely more important priority: manically second-guessing the desires of those on whom, at that time, our lives depended.

相比之下，我们真正想要的东西就变得次要：当时，我们的生活依赖于他人的需求，所以，我们焦急地猜测他人的需求。