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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  • -- Eli Whitney 伊莱·惠特尼

我现在已经承担了一项严肃的任务，我害怕在给定的时间里，任何人都有能力完成一项更大的任务——但是现在已经太晚了，不能回去了。

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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

我没有让他们在这里问我我的城市议程是什么。我没有发现他们真的在做关于社区组织的深入报道，这些组织已经挣扎了很长一段时间，并试图获得资金。他们对那些故事不感兴趣。

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I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

据我所知，真正全身心投入音乐的人很少，所以我一直试着把自己放在两个扬声器之间的沙发上听音乐。

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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

政治太严肃，不能太严肃;同样，它也有许多可笑之处，令人惋惜。

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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

他们想让我们放弃另一块部落土地。这不是第一次，也不是最后一次。

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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

赢得金牌并不容易，但我相信自己，尤其是在过去的四年里。

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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

我发现我们变得严肃起来，然后我们就有变得迟钝的巨大危险。

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The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

作家的任务是能够从一个想法中创造出一些东西。

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