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燃烧
Burning
I saw my hometown burning that day.
那天我看到我的家乡着火了。
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
要想成功,你必须有一种强烈的渴望。
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
如果你的房子着火了,你不试着把火扑灭吗?
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
我有一个燃烧的野心。否则,我不会完成它。
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
我不像其他人。我在地狱里燃烧。见鬼去吧。
Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
嗯,我的类型显然是有创造力的。有创意,有燃烧的眼睛和漂亮的嘴。
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
可以肯定的是,只要化石燃料是最便宜的能源,我们就会继续燃烧它们。
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
我把欧元描述成一座燃烧的大楼,没有出口,这一点在欧元区内的一些国家得到了证明。
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
一只猫的愤怒是美丽的,燃烧着纯粹的猫的火焰,它所有的头发站起来,噼啪作响的蓝色火花,眼睛燃烧和飞溅。
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
有一种品质是一个人必须拥有的,那就是明确的目标,知道自己想要什么,以及拥有它的强烈愿望。
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
使油砂特别令人讨厌的是,你最终得到的能源,单位二氧化碳,是可怜的。这相当于在你的汽车里烧煤。
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
我毫不畏惧地走过燃烧着的夏日大教堂。我的野草银行是宏伟的和充满音乐。它是孤独压在我唇上的火焰。
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此,通过努力来刺激局势既不合适,也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的,不安分的写作或绘画的冲动,只要吃点甜食,这种感觉就会过去。
You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - it's not pleasant, it's painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.
你想在运动后燃烧卡路里。对大多数人来说,问题变成了——这不是愉快的,而是痛苦的。你必须有忍受疼痛的能力才能处理这些,而很多人都没有。
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
如果我们遇到这样的情况,人们开始烧毁我们的记录,那就继续吧。这就是重点。黄昏已经开始。我们在黑暗中。这种情况以前也发生过。去读历史吧。