A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
少年
Teenager
I was a pretty difficult teenager.
我是一个很难相处的少年。
I was a really pretentious teenager.
我是一个自命不凡的少年。
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
当我十几岁的时候，我读了很多坡的作品。
I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
我从十几岁开始拍广告。
It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
在这个时代做一个青少年是很艰难的。
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
我现在的青春痘比我十几岁的时候还多。压力青春痘。
Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.
没有人有时间像一个十几岁的孩子那样在早上不停地尝试一大堆事情。
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
没有哪个青少年会听父亲说一个字。
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
我只是在十几岁的时候才发现电子音乐，我仍然喜欢这种神童式的大规模进攻。
When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
当我十几岁的时候，我非常喜欢科幻小说，这对我的写作也有很大的影响。
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
我对电脑很感兴趣，也想知道它们是如何被青少年的自大狂冲动所奴役的。
I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'
我无法告诉你，在我十几岁的时候，有多少人会对我说，‘你为什么不长大，开始考虑找一份真正的工作?’
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It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
我花了很长时间才意识到我十几岁时是个女孩。在那个时候，我从来没有真正相信过。很长一段时间我看起来像个男孩。现在，终于，我觉得自己像个女人了。
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
十几岁的时候，我不知道自己有可能赢得奥运会金牌，我的体育生涯只是在幸运的环境下发展起来的。
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
作为一个青少年，我给自己施加了很多压力，而其中很大一部分，对我来说，就是要找到一个道德高地。随着我的成长，我决定放弃它，因为它让我做出判断，也给我带来了压力。
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.
我想，早在我的摇滚生涯之前，我就对开放上瘾了。我十几岁的时候很糟糕。我过去常常故意让别人对我的个人细节感到不舒服。我总是着迷于这样一种想法:我们在做什么和不做什么之间有这些奇怪的、随机的界限。
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off. Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
每次要写一个成年人的少年,你没有的东西,身体上,一个人,你总是会有点。每次一个成年人要写少年,你没有的东西,身体上,一个人,你总是会有点。
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
作为一个十几岁的少年，我拼命地寻找可以阅读的东西，可能会原谅我或向我保证我不是唯一一个，可能会证实我不快乐地拼凑在一起的身份。