A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
小镇
Town
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
我一天大约看八份报纸。当我在一个只有一份报纸的城市里，我读了八遍。
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。
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
所以，对我来说，市政厅会议确实是一个与人们进行双向对话的机会，它们非常有帮助。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
Paris ain't much of a town.
巴黎不是个大城市。
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。