A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
个人
Myself
When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.
当事情太简单的时候,我对它们失去了兴趣,所以我想办法把它们复杂化来让自己感兴趣。
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
随着年龄的增长,我发现自己越不愿意回去重读或真正读新的小说或诗歌。
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
二十年前我自己写的许多文章现在给我的印象是,它们对我来说是相当陌生的东西。
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
译者——尤其是我自己——所做的与荷马式的表演者所做的是不可比拟的。
First, i'm trying to prove to myself that i'm a person. Then maybe i'll convince myself that i'm an actress.
首先,我要向自己证明我是一个人。也许我会说服自己我是个演员。
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
即使我没有钱上声乐课,我也要在家里自己练习大声唱歌。
If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.
如果我不喜欢在屏幕上看到自己,我想当我开始看到的时候,我就会停下来。
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.
我仍然觉得很难突破自己的极限。我知道我的极限在哪里,我总是要强迫自己。
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
我看着自己把爪子伸进捕熊器,因为里面有关于离开成员的条款。
I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.
我对自己的作品如此挑剔,以至于我很难把自己和观众分开来看。
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
我开始相信关心自己不是自我放纵。关心自己是一种生存的行为。
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
在我对人类大脑进行了所有的探索之后,我仍然应该意识到其中的奥秘,并自己去发现它们。
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I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.
我从来没有做过眉毛——我自己用镊子夹住眉毛。我曾经看着我妈妈拔眉毛,这就是我学到的。
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
我什么都不满足,躁动不安,野心勃勃……我鄙视自己的虚荣心,虚荣心是我努力的一半动力。啊,但愿我是那些曾经着手犁地的迟钝而又聪明的傻瓜之一,什么也不怀疑。
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
我们每个人在童年都有第一次活过来的时刻。我们回想那些时刻,然后想,这就是我成为我自己的时刻。
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!
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
如果你问我来到这个世界是为了做什么,我将告诉你:我是为了大声地活着。
I never thought of myself as a writer.
我从未想过自己会成为一名作家。