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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。
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。
One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
一个人去休斯顿工作,另一个人去伦敦,你们在打电话,有人付钱让你亲别人。当演员很奇怪。
The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.
让我猝不及防的是去吃饭的时候,有人向我要签名或者拍照。人们到我家来要签名——这是我还没有完全掌握的事情。
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
母马以燕子的速度出发回家,走得又平稳又安静。我从来没有梦想过会有这样的动作,流畅而优雅,环境优雅,轻柔如微风拂过花朵,却如夏日的闪电般迅捷。
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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。
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。
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
坟墓,可怕的东西!人们一听到你的名字就发抖;大自然惊骇万分,抖掉了她惯有的坚强。
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
我想我下错星球了。传送给我,斯科蒂,这里没有理性的生活。
Being dead is being weak and walled off.
死就是软弱和被隔离。
The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
体重真的开始下降,我可以看到我的肌肉。这是可怕的。