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芝加哥
Chicago
And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
当我去芝加哥的时候,我有了一些外太空的经历,我去了其他星球。
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
芝加哥是一个没有人能忘记钱是怎么赚到的城市。它是从血迹斑斑的地板上捡起来的。
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
我袭击了一座城市——一座真正的城市——他们管它叫芝加哥……我迫切希望再也不要见到它。那里住着野蛮人。
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
我在芝加哥长大,所以总是用拉丁语。这就是我父亲和兄弟们所谓的我们自己,当我们指的是整个芝加哥的西班牙语社区。
Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but it made continuity from album to album and that was our way of doing it.
我们在芝加哥组的朋友,他们只是给他们的编号,我们认为这是一种简洁的方法,但它使一张专辑到另一张专辑的连续性,这是我们做这件事的方式。
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
我在芝加哥学的是舞蹈,每年夏末都教,整个冬天都教,我很全面。我并不担心能否在百老汇找到一份工作。事实上,我第一周就得到了一个。
I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.
我来自一个家庭,在那里我感到要在经济上取得成功的巨大压力,我觉得呆在芝加哥做戏剧,我很可能不会在经济上取得成功。
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
那是深秋一个晴朗的下午,漂亮的凯布尔小姐开着马车来到路边,等着她父亲从芝加哥最高的建筑物之一的办公室里出来。
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
作为伟大城市芝加哥的一名市民,我发现不可能支持白袜队。至少在我的一生中,白袜队在把一支获胜的棒球队带到球场上方面,表现得更加稳定。
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
与德卢斯或其他类似的地方相比,我在芝加哥的比赛总能获得更多的动力。因为那里的历史和人民比其他城市的人更有知识。这是一个美妙的音乐场景,有一些伟大的乐队和伟大的音乐家。
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My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
我叔叔喝醉了,我们住在芝加哥。
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
爱芝加哥就像爱一个鼻子受伤的女人。
But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
但是我最喜欢的乐队是芝加哥的路边生活。
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
任何一个现实的、理智的人在芝加哥都会受到保护。
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
芝加哥有一种奇特的形而上的死亡优雅。
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
我和芝加哥小熊队生死与共。