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Turned
I turned down a lot of films.
我拒绝了很多电影。
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
这个童话变成了一场噩梦。
I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.
我最近拒绝了许多垃圾。
I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.
我想写一首颂歌,但它变成了一首十四行诗。
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
一个传教士使我兴奋,另一个使我沮丧。
Losing you is like somebody just turned all the lights off.
失去你就像有人关上了所有的灯。
I turned out liking you a lot more than I originally planned.
我原来比原来计划的更喜欢你。
A bad wife wishes her husband's heel turned homewards, and not his toe.
一个坏妻子希望丈夫的脚后跟是向家的,而不是脚趾。
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
我拒绝了出演一些后来成为大片的电影的机会。
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
我岳母左乳房下部疼痛。原来是膝盖出了问题。
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
大量的印刷品已经把阅读变成了一种吞咽而不是品味的过程。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
我拒绝了第一个剧本和第二个剧本。有一天,我躺在花园里的一把伞下,读着第三本,不知道为什么我拒绝了第一本。
I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.
我非常幸运。我经历了很多失败的事情,我让自己走出了困境。
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
跟随他的人在他们那一代人中是独一无二的。他们把世界搞得天翻地覆,因为他们的心已经完全颠倒过来了。世界从来就不一样。
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
无论某项政策的结果多么糟糕,任何批评该政策的人都可能听到:“但你会用什么来取代它呢?”“当你扑灭一场火时,你用什么来代替它?”
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
我并不是想让自己听起来像变聪明了,但很高兴认识到你的世界并不是整个世界。
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there.
我转身向上帝诉说这个世界的绝望;但更糟的是,我发现上帝并不在那里。