A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Shopping turns me off.
购物使我厌烦。
Anybody can leap off a building.
任何人都能从建筑物上跳下。
Being dead is being weak and walled off.
死就是软弱和被隔离。
It's always nice to start off with a good result.
一开始就有一个好的结果总是好的。
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
我一直喜欢打扮得漂漂亮亮的，炫耀一番。
I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.
我还有一周半的时间，一切都不确定了。
So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.
所以我要去吃饭的地方，然后在节目中表演。
I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
自从我脱掉裤子后，我就没有失业过。
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
我选择一块大理石，把我不需要的东西砍掉。
I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.
我不喜欢在机场被搜身和脱鞋。
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
如果我觉得我的一部歌剧不成功，我一定会这么说。
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
在政治上，人们通过把一件事做好而建立起自己的声誉。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
你拼命工作，有人说你不能播放你的唱片，因为这冒犯了他们。暴君就是由这种东西构成的。
Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.
无论你是一个四分卫，你只是投了一个挑球，或者你是一个角球，你只是被击败了一个触地得分，你必须有一个短期记忆，摆脱它，打下一场比赛。
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
相信我，老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然，你被轻轻地推下了舞台，但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。
When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.
当我在酒店的时候，我把灯和电视都关掉，我就会抓狂。我又把电视打开，睡不着觉。
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
对于那些打领带的人，我想如果你们能把领带摘下来，我爸爸会很感激的。
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
然而，青春甚至可以享受它的忧郁;因为那种忧郁是一种预言的最终事实，还有很长的路要走。