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Trying
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
我背对球门,身体力行地击退防守队员,努力把球打进球门,每周我都要为俱乐部做些事情。这就是前锋的生活。
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.
我正在和我的营销团队进行头脑风暴,试图为伯明翰的人们想出一个深夜餐厅的概念。
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
你必须尽可能地使你的颜色与你眼前所见的颜色相匹配,你还必须研究光和影对大自然本身色调和色调的影响。
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.
我觉得总有什么东西试图把我们拉回到睡眠中,在所有吸引我们的享乐主义快乐中都有这种诱人的特质。
I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.
我有很多期待。我在尽我所能做最好的父亲,这是一个非常重要的角色。有些人会说这比停止接吻更重要。
It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
你想要完成什么并不重要。这都是纪律问题。我下定决心,要去探索城市里街道之外的生活对我意味着什么。
The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.
对我来说,重要的是我不会被别人的赞扬所驱使,也不会被别人的批评所拖累。我只是在尽我所能地工作。
You changed my life without even trying, & i don't think i could ever tell you how much you mean to me. I can't Imagine what things would be like if i hadn't met you.
你毫不费力地改变了我的生活&我想我永远也无法告诉你你对我有多重要。我无法想象如果我没有遇见你会是什么样子。
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
我要去哥伦比亚大学,但是我尽量保持低调,因为我不想让奇怪的人跟着我去那里。我想体验一下师范大学的生活。
But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
但我认识的每一个人都会遇到这样的情况,他们会伸出双臂,在那里呆上一段时间;否则你永远不知道自己的极限是什么。我只是想找到我的。
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
我现在最大的计划是成为一个真正伟大的母亲,学习如何平衡家庭和事业。我只是尽我所能多陪陪我的家人。
If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
如果我一直试图以卑鄙、不正当的方式从他手中夺走这份工作,那么我罪有应得。但事实恰恰相反。我想让他得到那份工作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Stop trying so hard to fit in you're perfect how you are nothing is better than being yourself.
不要那么努力去适应你是完美的,没有什么比做你自己更好的了。
We've been trying to get on the ship for a month.
我们试着上船已经一个月了。
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
在写文学小说时,你是在帮助自己。读者阅读文学小说不仅仅是为了娱乐,而是因为他们觉得会有别的事情发生;这种经历会让他们超越自我,向他们展示一些他们从未见过的东西。
I try to reach out to my idols.
我试着去接近我的偶像。
I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
我试着对商店里的食物做出反应,挑出最好吃的,做出看起来很漂亮的应季菜。那才是正道。我喜欢去杂货店和市场。这些对我来说都不是苦差事。洗碗是件苦差事。
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
我第一次录音的时候,是在我的录音机里。听起来很棒。它的麻醉作用是如此强烈,令人愉悦。我说,‘你听起来像个乐队。然后,我的余生都在试图再次追逐那最初的快感。