A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
童年
Childhood
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
当你怀疑自己是否能飞的时候，你就永远不能飞了。
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。
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
我爱书籍;我虚度了童年。我对我的内心世界更感兴趣。
The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
童年的事情不会过去，而是像一年中的季节一样不断重复。
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
我一直是个梦想家，尤其是在童年。人们觉得我有点奇怪。
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
我想不出在童年时期有什么比需要父亲的保护更强烈的需要了。
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
我是一个哮喘患儿。所以我童年的大部分时间都是在床上度过的。卧床不起。
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
作为一名游泳运动员，我的童年几乎没有穿衣服，这让我对自己的身体感到非常舒服。
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
在我们还是婴儿的时候，天堂就在我们周围;不久之后，世界也开始在我们周围撒谎。
With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.
有两个穿着尿布的小男孩，如果我想要有自己的生活，我必须保持简单。
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
有了孩子，你就会回到你童年时隐藏的那些部分。
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
我童年最开心的事就是逗我弟弟大笑，笑得食物都从他鼻子里掉出来了。
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
快乐的童年毁掉了许多有前途的人生。
We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.
我们只是一群叽叽喳喳的孩子，每个人都在一起玩，玩得很开心。你知道孩子们是多么的可怕——虐待孩子，但是很有趣。但无论如何，那是一个美好的童年。
Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
你知道，气味是如此强大。我奶奶会烤一些东西，比如松脆面包和饼干。我觉得每当我闻到那种味道，我就会想起我的童年。
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
我们所有的追求，从童年到成年，只不过是一些大小不一的琐事，与我们的年龄和观点成正比。
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
对于身处其中的人来说，童年往往是一件严肃的事情。
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
我的父亲从小就通过与土著和部落人民的联系告诉我，无论遇到什么害虫，你都必须保护人们的神圣地位。