A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
告诉
Told
I wish I hadn't told you.
我要是没告诉你就好了。
I have not told half of what I saw.
我所看到的一半还没有讲出来。
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
谎言说得越多，真理越成立。
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
有人告诉我这一切都发生在动物园里。
Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.
照吩咐去做，一切都会好的。
How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?
我多大了?我和我妈妈告诉我的一样老。这是怎么回事?
I remember every word you told me. I can't stop thinking about it.
我记得你告诉我的每一个字。我一直在想这件事。
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
我从小就经常骂人，这感觉很自然。我父母叫我停下来。
I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.
我告诉我的员工我很无聊，我甚至不知道我很无聊。
I told you I loved you every day... Sometimes I just said it with my eyes.
我每天都对你说我爱你…有时候我只是用眼睛说。
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
我告诉学生们，他们在课堂上所做的一切都是为了扔废纸篓。
You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
你演了成百上千个角色，却多次被告知“不”、“不”、“不”。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
我妈妈总是告诉我，即使一首歌已经被唱了一千遍，你仍然可以把你自己的东西带进去。我想我做到了。
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
医院当局告诉我，离开的病人留下的我的作品比任何其他作者留下的都多。
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
只有艺术家才能看到灵魂。但当他告诉大家他们出现在他面前时，每个人都看到了他们。
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
如果我告诉你，作为一名黑人棒球运动员，我没有经历过比队友更糟糕的时期，那我就是在说谎。
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
医生说我再也不能走路了。妈妈说我会的。我相信我的母亲。
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我，我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!