A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
做了
Did
I never really did a western western.
我从来没拍过西部片。
I crammed my exams in London and did fine.
我在伦敦临时抱佛脚，考得很好。
The difference with me is that I did inhale.
我的不同之处在于我确实吸气了。
I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.
我不知道是谁替我说的，但有人说了。
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
如果没有虚荣心作伴，美德将走得很远。
I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.
我根本没有孩子，感谢上帝，我从来没有生过孩子。
I am just relaxing and enjoying myself, doing what I always did.
我只是放松和享受自己，做我一直做的事情。
I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
很明显，我在学校学过数学。我爱我所有的数学老师。
Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
太多的人看着我的眼睛，没有告诉我真相。
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
如果我觉得我的一部歌剧不成功，我一定会这么说。
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
如果我们不奉承自己，别人的奉承永远不会伤害我们。
I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.
我的感觉和我在学校的时候一样。我也有同样的不安全感。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
我不知道怎么画壁画。我不知道如何准备表面。文艺复兴时期没有人能给我出谋划策，而我也尽了最大的努力。
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
我总是做一些我还没有准备好的事情。我想这就是你成长的方式。当你感到“哇，我真的不确定我能不能做这件事”的时候，你就会坚持下去，这时你就有了突破。
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
学习和创新是相辅相成的。成功的骄傲就是认为你昨天所做的对明天足够了。
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
我们常常会为自己最好的行为感到羞愧，如果全世界都看到了我们做出这些行为的动机的话。
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
没有伟大的艺术家能看到事物的本来面目。如果他这样做了，他就不再是艺术家了。
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
我完全预料到，到本世纪末，我们所取得的成就将大大超过我们实际取得的成就。