A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
童年
Childhood
Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
当然，我的童年是不寻常的。所有这些古怪、狂野的人都经常光顾我们的家:摇滚明星、变装皇后、模特、摩托车手、怪胎。但我不是这个有钱的小女孩。我妈妈和我住在一套公寓里。
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.
他们说你的童年影响着你的品味和兴趣，或者如果你是一个艺术家，你的方式。所以你创造了什么，你看到了什么，你的童年是什么样的——它影响着你将如何结束。
I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.
我知道孩子们喜欢什么，因为我经常和他们联系。而且，他们说，很多为孩子们写作的人能生动地回忆起他们自己的童年，我也能生动地回忆起我的童年。
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
任何加速都是进步，光荣小姐。大自然并不了解现代的工作速度。从技术的角度来看，整个童年都是一派胡言。只是浪费时间。简直是浪费时间。
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
我从这个开始:我完全没有画过我的童年。事实上，我从不画画。但是我帮助了我的父亲，他是一个房屋画家和装饰画家。他做舞台布景，他做玻璃画，他什么都做。
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
我在那个世界长大，看到它对她的世界产生了多大的影响，也看到它对我们的童年产生了多大的影响，这让我对政治非常敏感。当然，我有我自己的感觉和想法，但我不想分享。
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
我有一个非常困难的童年。我周围的人都有父母，这让我感觉不一样。早年的生活比较艰苦，这让我懂得了祖父母灌输给我的职业道德。
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
很多人进入喜剧是因为他们的生活或事件中受到了某些痛苦的影响，我真的绞尽脑汁想弄明白。我的童年很正常。也许这太正常了。
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
在我的童年时代，有一股贫穷的潜流。我们和我的祖母住在她的两居室里，我和我的父母睡在一起。我们有便宜的假期，我不得不为我的自行车攒钱，等我长大了就买一张纸。
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
当我有一个孩子的时候，每个人都告诉我，我要通过她的眼睛去看这个世界，所有的事情都会让这个世界变得更加美好。我一直在等待这一切的发生，并认为我有一个真正的问题，但它不是。
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.
你会说，每个人从小都看过风景和人物。问题是:每个人小时候都有过反射性吗?所有见过它们的人也都喜欢荒原、田野、草地、树林、雪、雨和树林吗?
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.
我们像世界上最无情的东西一样跳下去，这就是孩子，但又那么有吸引力;我们有一段完全自私的时光，当我们需要特别关注时，我们会高尚地回报，相信自己会得到回报，而不是挨打。
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
如果你带着你的童年，你永远不会变老。
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
成年期是童年和老年之间不断缩小的时期。现代工业社会的明显目标是把这段时期减少到最低限度。
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
我的音乐有我从童年时代挖出来的根，音乐的根埋在最黑暗的土壤里。
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
只有在事后你才意识到你的童年是什么样的。
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.
如果你想更多地了解你的父母，让他们谈谈自己的童年;如果你带着同情去倾听，你就会知道他们的恐惧和刻板的模式从何而来。那些“对你做了那些事”的人和你一样害怕和害怕。
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears.
我童年的许多记忆都是含着泪走回家。