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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。
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。
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
我想看看生活——看看存在的平凡之处——就像我们刚刚拐过一个弯，第一次遇到它一样。
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。
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
一旦你尝到了飞翔的滋味，你将永远昂首阔步地走在地球上，因为你曾经在那里，你将永远渴望回到那里。
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。
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。
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?”
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
音乐给我带来了人生中一些最美好的时刻。我甚至听不到音乐。我甚至听不到音符。我不知道有人打开了录音机——我在另一个世界。
What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
当时让我兴奋的是，甚至今天也让我兴奋的是——当我从管理层退休的时候，我想我仍然对它感兴趣——世界上发生的一切都影响着证券的价格。
If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.
如果人类还处于原始状态，我们就不需要现在这样的大城市了，它们把我们变成了不同的一群人。在野性的状态下，我们会更加安全，更加熟悉彼此，精神上更加平衡。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
I turned down a lot of films.
我拒绝了很多电影。
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 fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
这个童话变成了一场噩梦。