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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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
欢迎来到沃比冈湖，这里所有的女人都很强壮，所有的男人都很英俊，所有的孩子都在平均水平以上。
If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
如果你在城里为高中生张贴海报，高中生就会来。如果你选的是政客，你不能张贴海报然后让政客们下来。
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。
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
我在一个小镇的农场长大，在那里你做一件事或说一件事，每个人都知道。你看到事情发生了，城里总是有流言蜚语——‘哦，你听说了某某事吗?所以我很小的时候就学会了闭嘴。