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记者
Reporter
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
我一直认为自己是一名记者。
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
我曾作为记者入围普利策奖决赛。
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
没有记者乘坐借来的双引擎飞机四处飞行。
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
但我是个幽默作家。我不是记者，我从来没有假装成记者。
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
一个男人是报社记者这一事实证明了他性格上的某些缺陷。
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
我早年就注意到报纸上从来没有正确报道过任何事件。
If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.
如果一个记者不喜欢他所写的那个人，这一点就会在他的文章中体现出来。
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
作为一名老记者，我们有一些秘密，第一件事是我们尝试电话簿。
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
但我认为，人们会从记者的报道中解读出他们希望从记者身上看到的偏见。
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
当我们犯了一个错误，它就会成为头版新闻。我们不需要任何记者告诉我们我们打得有多差。
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
我的祖父是一名报社记者，我的叔叔也是。他们都是很好的作家，所以我想也许在将来的某个时候我可以写点东西。
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
如果我说新闻报道没有反映出我作为记者和作家的选择，那就是在撒谎:该说什么，该强调什么，该怎么说，什么是真实的，什么是不真实的。
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A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
记者总是关心明天。昨天没有任何有形的东西。我只能说我所做的就是搅动空气十到十五分钟，然后轰的一声，它就消失了。