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偶像
Idol
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
造偶像的，决不是拜偶像的。
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
我是一个青少年偶像，但它的保质期很短。
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
成为青少年偶像是我一生都在等待的。
People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
我周围的人都叫我偶像，所以我就是那个偶像。
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
没有什么比一个过时的偶像更不快乐的了。
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
证明是一个偶像，纯数学家在它面前折磨自己。
I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child.
我是他们的玩物，他们的偶像，是他们更好的孩子。
When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
当我被偶像的工作压得喘不过气来的时候，我没有时间去思考。
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
如果你选举一个日场偶像市长，你将会有一个音乐喜剧管理部门。
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
他们把我当作一个青少年偶像来推销，而唱片上的东西并不是青少年偶像当时在做什么。
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
我的父亲是我的偶像，所以我总是像他一样做每件事。他过去做两份工作，但仍然每天晚上愉快地回家。
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
今天的偶像把昨天的英雄从我们的记忆中推开;反过来，他也将被明天的继任者所取代。
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
我不会拿自己和以前的偶像选手相比，因为我觉得自己和他们都不一样。也许故事很酷，但我的故事不同于大多数人的故事。我不喜欢和别人比较，我喜欢做我自己。