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想要
Wanted
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
我父亲总是非常支持我做的每一个决定,他对我选择自己想做的事情更感兴趣。
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
我想证明犯罪是不会有好下场的。如果你得救了,接受了主,你就不能以此为借口逃避惩罚。
I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.
我想尽可能地远离所有人。我发现很难接近任何人,不仅仅是乐队里的人。
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
但当我看到代孕妈妈时,我的第一反应是嫉妒,因为她在做我想做的事。
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
我想我想写一本关于受害人和行凶者之间关系的书,在书中受害人同意保持沉默。
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
我只是想做一张不逃避现实的唱片。比如,我不想再写一个缺乏有意义内容的唱片。
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
成为一名记者的愿望真的来了,因为我非常喜欢住在国外,喜欢旅行,而且想要得到报酬。
The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
战斗已经结束了,只有当一个人知道自己需要什么,并下定决心要得到它,不管代价是什么,他才会大喊大叫。
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
我并没有因为怀孕而欣喜若狂——我也不是那种积极想要孩子的人。当然,换尿布并不是幻想。
I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.
我坚信,当我走到最后,我想要为我做过的事而后悔,而不是为我没有做过的事而后悔。
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
一旦你的文化和品牌中有了如此深刻的东西,你就很难扭转这种惯性,如果你想这样做的话。
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
我总是在我想写的时候写。一旦我在脑海中有了想法,并把它勾勒出来,我通常只是坐下来写,直到它完成。
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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
我只想做大一点,做演艺事业,旅行……这就是我这辈子一直在做的事情。
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
我想成为一名蓝调吉他手。和一个歌手。和一个作曲家。不是一个令人震惊的运动员。
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。
If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.
如果我们真的想变得很酷,世界上每个人都有专业的工具,我们可以把它放到互联网上,每个人都可以用它制作自己的唱片。
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 knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
我知道我想成为一名作家,甚至在我确切地知道成为一名作家意味着什么之前。