A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
假设
Suppose
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
我想我是由太多的电影和电视塑造的。在某个时候，我吸收了这个戏剧性的公式。
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
当我们描述他人真实的样子时，我想我们经常会描绘出我们想要什么。我们透过自己需求的棱镜看问题。
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
所以我认为诗歌，语言，它的形成，对我来说，过去是，现在仍然是一种努力，去从本质上毫无意义的情况中找到意义。
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?
我没有时间和肤浅的朋友在一起。我想，如果你真的很孤独，你可以打电话给一个肤浅的朋友，但除此之外，还有什么意义呢?
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
我想我对社会的坏品质很感兴趣，因为我是社会的一部分，而坏品质给我们的未来带来了危险的问题。
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
我唱的东西都应该是真品。这不应该是假装的，或者我在做一些东西让观众跳起来或者举起他们的手。
But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
但如果你能找到那个地方——我想那就像跑步一样——我曾经是一名游泳运动员，游了几圈，你就必须在那里做你正在做的事情。
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
我想一个艺术家把他生活中的元素重新排列，然后让别人把它们视为他们生活中的元素。
I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.
我在学校成绩不太好，我想我一直有一种感觉，你知道的，就是平庸，所以我对自己的能力有点缺乏自信。
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
你以为有哪个活着的人是这样不讲道理，以致当他发现自己得了一种危险的疾病时，他就不会急切地想恢复健康吗?
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
事实上，我想我父亲很想成为一名艺术家。但是我认为他没有足够的动力，或者，我不知道，我的意思是，我想他有一个家庭要抚养。
I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.
我想每个人都说些善意的小谎言。很多时候，他们是必要的，以使人感觉更好或防止感情受到伤害。弥天大谎?不，那很危险，他们会自食其果的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.
我的意思是，我想当我在伦敦的时候，我在家所以我更舒服。
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.
我想最近发生的事情已经证实了我在书中所表达的怀疑，我认为我所指出的一些事情已经更清楚了。例如，我在书中有一部分谈到了酷刑的可能性。
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
我想，当我对着浴室镜子里的梳子唱歌时，我也有过摇滚明星般的幻想，但我从来没有真正有意识地说过，‘好吧，这就是我要做的工作，我要做一个古怪的艾尔。’
I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
当我跑步的时候，我总是觉得很自由。我想这就是它的好处。
Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.
我想，理智就是让人们以你的方式看世界。