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个人
Myself
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
我若不为自己,谁为我呢?如果我不为别人,我是谁?如果不是现在,什么时候?
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
也许我不再把自己看得那么严肃了。我不在乎别人怎么评价我。我已经克服了这一切。
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
如果我喜欢自己的体重,那么这就是我要成为的样子。我没有饮食失调。
That was for Jon. He didn't throw the pitch I wanted him to throw to Cabrera and Cabrera hit it out.
那是给琼恩的。他没有投出我想让他投给卡布雷拉的球,卡布雷拉把球打出去了。
I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
我只是想让人们看到我做我自己的事情,我不傻,我可以拿自己开玩笑。
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
这是我妈妈的主意。她的感觉是,我自己没有选择交易的智慧。
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
我把自己比作一个人,他建造了一座房子,有一天他将住在里面,并准备装修。
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
当我从更大的意义上思考所发生的事情,超越我自己,那么我不会改变任何事情。
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
我是一个工程师。我把自己看作一个工具制造者,音乐家是我的顾客……他们用我的工具。
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
我走来走去,带着口音自言自语。通常人们看着我就像我是一个完整的水果圈。
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
陪着我,把我抱在你那肌肉发达、花枝招展的臂弯里,保护我不让自己的任何一部分被抛弃。
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
大约六年前,我独自一人就能养活自己了。在那之前,我只是勉强度日。
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
死亡啊,我要向你奋起反抗,不屈服,不屈服!
I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
我真的是一个女权主义者,尽管我从来没有这样称呼自己。
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
我是一个非常爱吃的人,也是一个非常饥饿的人,所以我开始在这条路上寻找答案,当然这也引起了其他人的共鸣。
It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.
这是一个不间断的时间表,真的。我在什么地方迷路了。
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
无论如何,艾夫斯鼓励我进入音乐领域,尽管他自己作为一名作曲家经历了如此艰难的时期。
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
我不会自鸣得意——我不是科学家,也不是保护专家。