A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
想要
Wanted
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
当我年轻的时候，我想做一些更低调的事情，比如成为一个摇滚乐队的鼓手。
One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things you've always wanted.
总有一天你会醒来，不再有时间做你一直想做的事情。
I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
我是不可战胜的，至少我想让你这么想，我也想让我这么想。
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
为了治疗击球时的萎靡不振，我把球棒带上了床。我想更了解我的球拍。
I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
我想成为那个站在门廊上对着邻居家的孩子大喊大叫的古怪老头。
It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
这是一个变革的时期，我真的想从我的经历中创作音乐。
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
在那之前，我想成为一名杂志插画家——我可能会画哥特式的场景。
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
我想我的整个想法就是我不会成为那样的人，但是我非常想成为那样的人。
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
我想接受教育，努力工作，永不偏离我的目标。
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
我妹妹十二岁时开始表演，但我想先上大学。
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
如果我认为我父亲是我想取悦的人，我就不会做我曾经做过的事。
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
我从来不想看到任何人死去，但我愉快地读到一些讣告。
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I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
我不希望这是真的。我不想让它成为她的飞机。我想要——如果那是她的飞机，我想要以某种方式幸存下来，因为她在飞机的后部。但我们知道这不会发生，不会发生在这类事情上。
We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.
我们一直都想做这件事，一些你可以跟着跳舞的事情，在内心深处，我们一直认为如果我们能做到，我们可以把一些东西带到桌面上来，但是现场表演总是让我们后退一步，成为一个摇滚乐队。
I always wanted to write as much as perform.
我一直想写和表演一样多。
Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.
我不是告诉他们需要做什么，而是想从他们那里听到他们需要做什么。
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
从九、十岁开始，我就一心一意地做我想做的事。
I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.
我以前很严格，因为我只想通过它。现在，如果我认为一个场景应该以某种方式进行，而它又应该以另一种方式进行，我就可以轻松地以这种新的方式进行。