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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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。
When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
当我听音乐的时候,我并不是特别为了好玩。这并不是我生活中重要的一部分,我也不像我十几岁时那样对音乐世界所发生的一切了如指掌。
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。
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。
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。
When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
当你十几岁的时候,一切都像是世界末日,我不认为这是一件愚蠢的事情。你醒过来,意识到这个世界有问题,这些问题影响着你,而当你年轻的时候,即使你意识到这些问题,它们似乎也不会对你产生多大影响。