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认为
Thought
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
我去了剑桥,我想我会留在那里。我想我会静静地在某个角落里种上粗花呢,然后当个老爷子什么的。
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
于是他说:“我要把你的一条裤腿的裤脚剪掉,放在图书馆里。”我想,“这是上书的机会。”
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.
我从来没有想过高中毕业后我还会踢足球,所以从那支球队到成为国家队出场次数最多的球队,再到三届世界杯,这是非常特别的。
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
我一直认为,一旦你长大了,你可以做任何你想做的事——通宵不睡或者直接吃容器里的冰淇淋。
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
音乐体现的是情感,而不是像大多数艺术,尤其是文字艺术那样,强迫它与思想斗争和结合。
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
我们需要更多地思考人类学修辞的本质。在这方面,没有一个知识和思想体系可以依靠。
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
我小时候喜欢写作。我写过,但我一直以为那是你小时候做的事,然后你就把幼稚的东西收起来了。
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
我是学艺术长大的。我父亲认为我在艺术方面很有天赋,所以送我去了艺术学校。但他不想让我成为一名摄影师。
I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.
我从来都不明白榨汁的意义——我一直认为我可以从吃水果和蔬菜中获得足够的营养——但现在我转变了。
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
在后来的书中,我更擅长用语言来描述事物。我从来没有想过这一点,直到一位评论家指出来。
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!
一天晚上,我们坐在一起,想着人们会回过头来说,我无法想象她会有这么多的兴奋!
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
不管他是不是艺术家,摄影师都是一个快乐的感性主义者,原因很简单,眼睛传达的是感觉,而不是思想。
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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.
我过去常常想,要是能到行星上去看看该有多好。当然,我没有料到在我有生之年会发生什么。我知道它总有一天会发生,但它来得比我最初想的要快。
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
衰老是突然发生的,而不是像人们认为的那样是逐渐发生的。
Language is the dress of thought.
语言是思想的外衣。
You loved me 'cause I'm fragile. When I thought that I was strong but you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.
你爱我,因为我很脆弱。当我以为我很坚强,但你碰了我一会儿,我所有脆弱的力量都消失了。
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
当我开始写作的时候,我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中,这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
我对我所做的感到满足。我从来没有想过很多钱或漂亮的衣服——生活中更美好的东西——会让你幸福。我对幸福的理解是精神上的。