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童年
Childhood
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
我很执着，也很勤奋。此外，你最活跃和最有意识的时候是在童年时期，一个人试图重新获得那种高度的意识。
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
我是少数几个在童年结束后继续画画的人之一，在没有传统的学术训练中断的情况下，继续并完善童年绘画。
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
那是我的童年。我和僧侣们一起长大，学习梵语，早晚都要冥想好几个小时，每天去乞讨一次食物。
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
我有一个美好的童年，来自辛辛那提，我认为这是伟大的进入我的生活，在那里你必须开始作为一个年轻的舞者。
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
什么是正常的童年?我们并不富有，我们是相当的中产阶级。我父亲从一份工作活到另一份工作;由于他要照顾这么多亲戚，他一分钱也攒不下来。
We assume from childhood that certain fields of study are closed to us, and it never occurs to us in adulthood to see whether they might not have opened up for us in the interim.
我们从小就认为某些领域的研究对我们来说是封闭的，而在成年后，我们从来没有想过这些领域是否会在这段时间里为我们敞开大门。
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。
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.
我的童年是在一个想象的世界里度过的——也许是因为我需要一种逃避。我认为这是人们有想象力的原因之一——因为他们无法在这里维持存在。
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。
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
当童年死亡时，它的尸体被称为成年人，他们进入社会，地狱的政治名称之一。这就是为什么我们害怕孩子，即使我们爱他们，他们也会让我们看到我们衰败的状态。
What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood', but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.
孩子们对大人的期望不是“理解”，而是被爱，即使这种爱可能表达得笨拙或严厉。亲密并不存在于世代之间——只有信任。
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It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
这是一个完全平均的、适应良好的童年，与其他数百万人的童年没有一点不同。
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
我有一种狄更斯式的童年。
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
当然，童年的本质就是玩耍，我和我的朋友们无休止地在街上玩耍，我们不情愿地与车流分享。
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。
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。
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
童年的纯真就像许多动物的纯真一样。