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注意

Attention

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

我做过最疯狂的事来吸引男人的注意吗?我承认我跟踪过某人。我去了一家餐馆,我知道他在那里工作,我们实际上是好朋友,已经失去了联系,我假装不知道他在那里工作。

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

从你获得诺贝尔和平奖的那一刻起,就是我昨天说的那些话,没有人太在意,我获得诺贝尔和平奖后也说了同样的话——哦!这对人们来说非常重要,它帮助了我们的士气,因为种族隔离看起来确实是不可战胜的。

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

不幸的是,最伟大的摄影师并不会特别注意衣服。如果他们决定把一件裙子放在浴缸里,或者放在乡下到处都是泥土的奶牛面前,嗯,裙子又回来了……准备扔进垃圾桶。

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.

不是为了引起注意,而是为了娱乐,但是你也知道要展示一些乡村生活的元素,它混合了所有的元素,从某种意义上说,它有点像一种嘲弄,某种程度上是对那些对南方有刻板印象的人的一种回击。

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

你不再有超级名模之类的东西了。与其说它是真实存在,不如说它是一个词。我还认为,从设计师的角度来看,他们一度可能觉得明星们把太多的注意力从服装上转移开了。

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

从一个私人的人变成一个公众人物是一件非常痛苦的事情,尤其是当你是自传体的时候。但这是每个人都想要的——吸引每个人的注意,让你的音乐为你谋生,以这种方式得到认可。

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

与他人沟通最基本、最有力的方式就是倾听。只是听。也许我们给予彼此的最重要的东西就是我们的关注…爱的沉默往往比最善意的话语更能治愈伤痛,更能沟通。

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

如果我能每八个月出一张专辑,如果我能写一些节奏更快的歌,试着更多地专注于创作单曲,那么我可能会得到更多的关注。但是我不认为这些专辑听起来会很有趣,而且对我来说会是一个累赘。

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

只允许有五分钟的休息时间,结束时我又继续讲课。但短暂的休息,尤其是吸入新鲜空气的效果是那么令人神清气爽,所以在第二个小时里,注意力和第一个小时一样完全集中起来。

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

我可以连续五到六个星期不碰球杆。我会看着他们说,‘我只是不想;没有那么重要。这并不重要。高尔夫球——我不想随便回答——我很关注它,但我从来没有真正想过它。

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

倾听就是不断地放弃所有的期待,把我们的注意力完全地、新鲜地放在我们面前的事物上,而不是真正地知道我们将听到什么或那将意味着什么。在我们的日常生活中,倾听就是轻轻地向前倾,愿意被我们所听到的改变。

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I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.

我曾经接受每一份看起来相对有吸引力的工作。但现在我找了一份工作,第二天就进入了行业——感觉就像人们在观望,等着看你在做什么,而当你真的找了一份工作时,注意力就会被注意到。

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