A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小镇
Town
Paris ain't much of a town.
巴黎不是个大城市。
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
天啊，我想在舞台上指挥我们的城市。
God made the country, and man made the town.
上帝创造了乡村，人类创造了城镇。
If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.
如果哈维警官来了，我一定要去看看她。
I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
我来自缅因街，来自一个非常萧条的小镇。
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
沃比冈湖，一个被时间遗忘的小镇，几十年也无法改善。
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
这样生活，你就不会因为把家里的鹦鹉卖给镇上的流言蜚语而感到羞耻。
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
过这样的生活，你就不会因为把你的鹦鹉卖给镇上的流言蜚语而感到羞耻。
I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
我在棕榈泉出生长大。这是一个成长的好地方，一个真正的小镇。
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
我在城里住到八岁，然后搬到离农田更近的地方，所以我有了一种混合的生活方式。
A town of narrow streets, old houses, shops curiously low, with little in it to interest any one.
小镇上有狭窄的街道，古老的房屋，低得出奇的商店，几乎没有引起任何人的兴趣。
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
每个城镇都有两个相同的购物中心:一个是白人去的，另一个是白人过去常去的。
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A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.
这么多年来，很多人都在练瑜伽，我想现在甚至有更多的人表达了对瑜伽的兴趣。所以这里有很多灵性的表现。
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
凡夺取自由城而不拆毁的，就是犯了大错误，自害己命。
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
我在一个种族融合非常严重的地方长大，这个地方叫波特镇。它是一个农业/工业城镇，后来成为费城的郊区。我基本上是在一个黑人社区长大的。
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
我是那种孩子，他的父母会在他去上班的路上把他送到当地的城镇图书馆，我也会去儿童区工作。
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
在我爷爷建他自己的教堂之前，我们去了邻近的城镇，那是一个白人社区。你知道，在北部，大部分是欧洲中部的人和印第安人，奇皮瓦印第安人。我们被欢迎去那个教堂，但是一旦我们进去，他们不知道该拿我们怎么办。
Nashville feels like a big little town to me. It's got lots of culture and lots of interesting things to do and lots of interesting people. At the same time, it feels very small and tight-knit and very close. Everyone feels like they know each other.
纳什维尔对我来说就像一个大小镇。那里有很多文化，有很多有趣的事情可以做，有很多有趣的人。同时，它给人的感觉非常小，非常紧密，非常紧密。每个人都觉得彼此认识。