A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成长过程中
Growing Up
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
我在成长过程中有点像一个局外人，比起和其他孩子在一起，我更喜欢阅读。当我大约七岁的时候，我开始写我自己的书。我从来没有想过自己想成为一名作家——我只是想成为一名作家。
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
当你长大后，你妈妈说:“穿橡胶鞋，否则你会感冒的。”“当你长大成人后，你会发现你有权利不穿橡胶鞋，看看自己是不是感冒了。”大概是这样的。
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
每个人不是想照顾我就是想摆布我，你知道吗?我被取笑过很多次，当然，我确实被取笑过。四年级，五年级，六年级，每个人都在冲刺，除了我。我没有长大。
My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
我成长过程中最喜欢的玩具是宝莉口袋。但我想要的一件圣诞礼物是一双蹦床月亮鞋，尽管我从来没有收到过。你把它们绑在脚上，它们上面有弹簧，你可以跳来跳去!
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
在我成长的过程中，我们经常在一个下雪时从不铲雪的公园里打篮球。篮球圈从来没有固定过。那时我们明白了公共政策和我们的生活质量之间存在着关系。
All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.
在我成长的过程中，我所知道的就是我的父亲娶了我的母亲，并且爱她，仅此而已。他努力工作，赚了一些钱，把它放在梳妆台上。她把钱花在家庭上，他出去挣更多的钱。他教会了我很多关于爱的东西。
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
我爸爸鼓励我们失败。长大后，他会问我们那一周我们失败了什么。如果我们没有什么，他会失望的。在我很小的时候，它就改变了我的想法，失败不是结果，失败不是尝试。不要害怕失败。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
我们都在努力融入社会，寻找自我，尤其是在我们成长的过程中。
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
在我成长的过程中，我不得不学习缝纫，因为没有其他适合我的。
When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
当我长大的时候，只有三个频道，所以作为一个国家，我们在一天结束的时候都坐下来吃同一顿饭。现在发生了爆炸。
Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
成长的一部分就是从中吸取教训，继续前进，而不是把它记在心里。
Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!
在我的成长过程中，“乡村”之旅对我来说非常重要，尤其是在农场工作，体验到猫、鸡、猪、小牛和户外小屋的所有奇观!
Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.
我在大学里长大，在高中时，我是焦点。